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Record W4411698149 · doi:10.1080/14649357.2025.2515827

A Critical Examination of Land Value Capture Tools to Generate Affordable Housing in Toronto

2025· article· en· W4411698149 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePlanning Theory & Practice · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHousing Market and Economics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAffordable housingLand valueValue (mathematics)GeographyArchitectural engineeringEconomicsEngineeringAgricultural economicsEconomic growthStatisticsMathematics

Abstract

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Although land value capture (LVC) mechanisms are often advanced as a method to achieve more equitable development, critical scholars argue that LVC tools (e.g., density bonusing) actually serve to (re)produce inequality. Based on a mixed methods approach, I evaluate the effectiveness of using a density bonusing approach (1988–2018) to generate affordable housing in Toronto. In so doing, this paper critically examines whether LVC tools helped advance equitable outcomes. While the approach generated a relatively few affordable units, it was more successful at securing funding for affordable housing. In the end, density bonusing facilitated the large-scale production of market-rate condominium units.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.622
Threshold uncertainty score0.627

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.262 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it