5.0 CONCLUSION

mentioned above, has the ability to make a substantial impact on the supply of housing within Toronto while increasing accessibility to desired ‘single family’ neighbiurhoods within the city.

Such improvements will begin to increase the affordability of the City over time, while slowly shifting more density into residential areas within the city. These areas are desired by many due to their home-like feeling and central locations, but are often inaccessible, other than the homes which have been converted into apartments. To alter zoning and begin allowing such housing types, we must further consider queer family formations within the home. Often living with two to four people, while up to six have been identified, the developed units must be made to accommodate more than two to three individuals. Often units are not made to house more than three people, and tend to be exclusionary towards families beyond the ‘nuclear family’ standard, or LGBTQIA2S+ individuals who desire to live with their chosen family. With increasing density and implementing new housing typologies, the size and capacity of units must also be reconsidered. Employing policy and zoning with an equitable and inclusive lense, queer kinship and living formations beyond those of the nuclear family can be accomodated and supported. Further research focusing on a broader range of individuals must be explored to further understand the ways in which queer folks desire to live and how they can be supported.

CONSIDERING INTERSECTING IDENTITIES

Rather than perceiving LGBTQIA2S+ experiences as universal, this research project intended to uncover location, dwelling and kinship based themes and patterns that emerge among the endless experiences impacted by elements of ones identity. The research itself contributes to a deeper understanding of LGBTQIA2S+ community in Toronto by highlighting the communities’ spacial experiences and living needs beyond the basis of white, middle-class, cisgender, gay men. The research found that interms of living formations, TQIA2S+ folks primarily chose to live with individuals of the same gender identity or sexual orientation as them, and with individuals who’s ethnicities/cultures differed. It is difficult to form recommendations based on such a low quantity of information. In addition to the limited number of individuals being studied as a whole, the lack of findings may have resulted from an additional lack of data; as a fair number of individuals did not provide information related to either sexuality, gender or ethnicity/culture/race. Further research must be conducted in order to understand the impacts of identity on geographies of residence and inhabitation of space.

Figure 5 (City of Toronto, 2020b)