Underused public land in some of Canada’s larger cities could house a million people, study shows

If all the well-located, vacant or underused government-owned land in the Toronto region was turned into affordable housing, there would be space enough to potentially provide low-cost homes for more than 587,000 Canadians.In Ottawa, this same valuable, public land, close to schools, parks and transit, could house about 200,000 people. And in Calgary, there’d be enough for nearly 89,000 residents – not even counting all the property the province also owns in the city.