@_VictoriaGibson

Reporter, @torontostar

 Toronto
Joined August 2011
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@TorontoStar27 Oct 2023
Across Canada, more than 600,000 kids are growing up in homes that are significantly broken, overcrowded or unaffordable. What happens when they're forced out? This is, “The Kids Aren’t All Alright,” a series on how Canada is failing a generation. trib.al/4eD1ozv

The ceiling collapsed, and her world fell apart. What it’s like to be a kid who loses the place she...

600,000 kids in Canada are living in broken, crowded or unaffordable housing. Amina, 12, lost her community when her building was condemned.

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Amid ‘steady’ progress, 34 Toronto Community Housing complexes remain in critical disrepair -- great reporting from @_VictoriaGibson thestar.com/news/gta/2023/06… via @torontostar

Amid ‘steady’ progress, 34 Toronto Community Housing complexes remain in critical disrepair

Four years after a $1.3-billion federal funding promise, most TCHC sites have seen improvement. But data shows thousands still live in buildings in critical shape.

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André Picard@picardonhealth9 Jun 2023
Homeless encampments growing in Toronto: The number of tents and structures across the city has doubled since last year, as shelter closures loom and funding for some housing subsidies has dried up, by @_VictoriaGibson thestar.com/news/gta/2023/06… via @torontostar #homelessness

Homeless encampments are growing again in Toronto, as the city faces a surging crisis

The number of tents and structures across the city has doubled since last year, as shelter closures loom and funding for some housing subsidies has dried up.

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David Rider@dmrider5 Jun 2023
“Housing Now” or “Housing Never”? City council’s program to jumpstart affordable home construction is a mayoral election hot potato. Star’s @_VictoriaGibson reveals reasons the plan has yet to see one home built thestar.com/news/gta/2023/06… via @torontostar

Housing, eventually: Why Toronto’s rapid homebuilding program has yet to build a single home

Housing Now was supposed to deliver thousands of units quickly, but four years later it has stalled on a shaky economy, infrastructure issues and bureaucracy.

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Victoria Gibson retweeted
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@TorontoStar16 May 2023
The tower at 69 Yonge was once the gleaming headquarters of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Now it’s at the centre of reimagining of downtown Toronto space. trib.al/u7IQsMu

Boardrooms to bedrooms: Inside the effort to turn an aging office tower into downtown housing

The tower at 69 Yonge was once the gleaming headquarters of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Now it’s at the centre of reimagining of downtown space.

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@TorontoStar12 May 2023
#Breaking: Toronto council declares homelessness an emergency trib.al/2Mww7bS

Toronto council declares homelessness an emergency

The declaration, though mainly symbolic, was made alongside requests for millions of dollars in aid from higher levels of government.

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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar10 May 2023
On Wednesday, Toronto council voted 18-7 to approve multiplex housing citywide — meaning duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes can be built throughout large swaths of the city. trib.al/dRDc6GS

Goodbye yellowbelt: Toronto council says multiplexes can be built citywide

Neighbourhoods will no longer be preserved for single-family homes, as new rules allow for up to four units on a single lot — or five, if it’s large enough for a laneway or garden suite.

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Kristin Rushowy@krushowy16 Apr 2023
The greying of Toronto Islands: The curious case of one of the city’s most coveted communities thestar.com/news/gta/2023/04… via @torontostar @maywarren11 @_VictoriaGibson

The greying of Toronto Islands: The curious case of one of the city’s most coveted communities

For 30 years, island homes have been doled out by a community trust, keeping prices radically lower than in the cutthroat real estate market across the lake. But it’s had unintended consequences.

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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar24 Mar 2023
For decades, Toronto has protected huge parts of the city from anything denser than detached or semi-detached houses 🏠 How Toronto became an uneven city, and the looming fight to change the rules. This is #ZonedOut by @_VictoriaGibson & Nathan Pilla thestar.com/2023/toronto-hou…
A bird's eye view of Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood in Toronto.

ALT A bird's eye view of Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood in Toronto.

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Nick Faris@nickmfaris24 Mar 2023
"He played 16 years of professional hockey. He's never faced anything like this. But you could tell he did know ups and downs and sadness. That's what he handled so well." I profiled Scott Barney, head coach of the Humboldt Broncos:
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@theScore24 Mar 2023
The NHL call-up who uplifted the Humboldt Broncos after tragedy. 💚💛 thesco.re/3z3WMCB (via @nickmfaris)
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May Warren@maywarren1124 Mar 2023
This great read from ⁦@_VictoriaGibson⁩ and ⁦⁦@NathanPilla⁩ really shows the density divide in the city. thestar.com/2023/toronto-hou…

How Toronto became an uneven city – and the looming fight to change it

For decades, Toronto has protected huge parts of the map for single-family houses. Here’s how it happened.

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New from me and @nathanpilla: A story about Toronto's uneven growth, from a bird's eye view. @TorontoStar thestar.com/2023/toronto-hou…

How Toronto became an uneven city – and the looming fight to change it

For decades, Toronto has protected huge parts of the map for single-family houses. Here’s how it happened.

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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar22 Mar 2023
Toronto has approved more than 19,700 affordable rentals over the last six-plus years, but only about eight per cent — or 1,617 units — have actually been finished, a new database shows. trib.al/6natPL6
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André Picard@picardonhealth1 Mar 2023
At Toronto psychiatric facility CAMH, hospital stays can last for years due to a lack of housing, by @_VictoriaGibson thestar.com/news/gta/2023/03… via @torontostar #MentalHealth

Where a hospital stay can last for years due to a lack of housing

CAMH, the downtown mental health centre, has dozens of patients who no longer need acute care. What most really need is supportive housing.

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Victoria Gibson retweeted
Toronto Star
@TorontoStar25 Feb 2023
Charles Parris was a beloved neighbour in his building, but died with no one to bury him. His case highlights a burgeoning problem, as an increasing number of people in Toronto are dying without anyone able or willing to put them to rest. trib.al/mKl7DIC

Why a sought-after subsidized apartment sat frozen in time for nearly a year

Charles Parris was a beloved neighbour in his building, but died with no one to bury him. His case highlights a growing problem across Ontario.

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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar25 Feb 2023
Why a sought-after subsidized apartment sat frozen in time for nearly a year trib.al/QQdMdSQ

Why a sought-after subsidized apartment sat frozen in time for nearly a year

Charles Parris was a beloved neighbour in his building, but died with no one to bury him. His case highlights a growing problem across Ontario.

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@TorontoStar22 Feb 2023
After spending millions to maintain an empty housing complex, TCHC now wants to tear it down trib.al/jX0lljn
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Ben Mussett@mussettb19 Feb 2023
For the last couple of months, I’ve hung out with Russell to try and understand how he came to live in the woods of Toronto — and why he decided to stay so long. Here’s a Sunday read, and my latest for @TorontoStar thestar.com/news/gta/2023/02…
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Karon Liu@karonliu11 Feb 2023
Subscribe to your local paper, folks. Your city hall reporters never sleep. 🙏
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Ontario developers who benefitted from Ford government decisions on Greenbelt and MZOs dined with the premier at his daughter’s wedding by moi & @njaved thestar.com/news/investigati…

Ontario developers who benefitted from Ford government decisions on Greenbelt and MZOs dined with...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he’s done nothing improper and he’s been “cleared” by the integrity commissioner, whose opinion he sought four months after the wedding.

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