The Viaduct: How Toronto's Housing Crisis Ends
This is the first lecture of The Viaduct Winter 2025 Lecture Series. More information on the full series below.
How Toronto's Housing Crisis Ends by Eric Lombardi
Toronto is one of North America's most unaffordable housing markets, second only to Vancouver. At the beginning of 2024 the average home price in the city was over $1,000,000. For a household with a combined income of $85,000 it would take almost 40 years to save enough for a down payment.
Join us as Eric Lombardi discusses what led us to this unenviable position and what it would take to end Toronto's housing crisis for good.
Eric Lombardi is the founder of More Neighbours Toronto a volunteer advocacy organization seeking to end the housing crisis by encouraging housing abundance.
The evening begins with music from Kubla. You can expect an intimate blend of soul and jazz and a dreamy atmosphere that will set the perfect tone for our discussion.
Event Timing
6:30 PM: Doors Open and Performance Begins
7:15 PM: Lecture Starts
8:15 PM: Q&A Session
9:00 PM: Social Hour
10:00 PM: Event Concludes
Our Vibe
Toronto deserves the most welcoming, encouraging, spirited, and fun intellectual community in the world.
Our events are a place for our community to come together to learn, make friends, and develop ideas. It is a space where people can feel energized, engaged, and most importantly at ease.
We follow the Chatham House Rule. That means everything is open to discussion and after the event you can share any ideas you learned with others but - apart from the content of the lecture itself - you cannot reveal the identity or the affiliation of the person who you learned the idea from.
Come with a posture of openness and care and be ready to have a good time.
About the Viaduct
The Viaduct is an experiment in education for a new Toronto. A lecture series highlighting people and ideas that could transform our city. The first winter series of 5 lectures is taking place in early 2025 featuring talks on world building, the housing crisis, agency in politics, everyday anthropology, and the founding myth of Toronto.
Supporter Tickets
Individual lectures are available on Luma under the Toronto Society calendar. If you are interested in purchasing a series pass. A limited number of Supporter tickets are now available. Tickets include:
A reserved front row seat for every lecture
Access to all future series before public release
A shout out for supporting The Viaduct
About the Toronto Society
The Toronto Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge is building intellectual infrastructure that will promote education, community, and cultural creativity for the next 100 years and beyond.
Notice of Filming and Photography
When you attend this event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording will occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to this recording and its release, publication, exhibition or reproduction.