From the CMHC link:

The "housing continuum," now with benches in parks. Sadly they missed the sleep-prevention middle bar most park benches have these days.

In a move that I didn't see get any mainstream press coverage, although I learned about it through the Fediverse

I have some evidence that mods on the major Canadian subreddits actively censor and push specific political and ideological points. I have built tools to track it too.

This did get media coverage: https://archive.is/ABVDl

The reason this hasn’t blew up is because it’s not as much of bombshell as one might think. Looks like you’re conflating two things: the definition of affordable housing vs housing affordability targets. The definition of “what is affordable housing” hasn’t changed, it’s still 30% if income.

CMHC updated its affordability benchmark which is its own separate thing it uses to track progress on affordability levels. It might sound the same but these are separate things. For example, we can still build projects that are in the “affordable housing” category but if whether we build enough of it is one of the factors in the hit or miss of the affordability benchmark set as the levels observed in 2019.

Doesn't this mean the net income is dangerously close to the rent value itself?

I don’t really think anyone should make minimum wage in Toronto.

Where would you go? This trend is not unique to Canada, it's happening all across the West. Every liberal democracy will eventually end up like this.

Trade ya

Head to he east coast. They are a little more sane and grounded.