# Show some laneway love

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2016-11-26

affordable-housing, cities, city-of-toronto, cityworks, evergreen, evergreen-cityworks, housing, lanescape, laneway-housing, laneway-love, laneway-suites, laneways, small-spaces, toronto, uncategorized, urbanism

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I just want to do a quick follow-up to my recent post about [the momentum currently developing around laneway housing](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/153237291498/new-political-support-for-laneway-housing) here in Toronto. 

In the post, I mentioned that two councillors have come out in support of this housing typology. However, I neglected to mention that [Evergreen CityWorks](https://www.evergreen.ca/our-impact/cityworks/) is also at the table, as well as a housing advocacy group called [Lanescape](http://lanescape.ca/). It was mentioned in the comments, but I know that not everyone checks that part of the blog.

I say this for two reasons:

1) I thought about starting a similar initiative to Lanescape. (I’ve had lanewaylove.com registered for many years. Brand identity shown above.) But after meeting one of the Lanescape founders this past week, I think it only makes sense for me to instead throw my support behind them. They are accomplishing a lot in this space.

2) Lanescape has a survey up on their website and the results will be used to guide a laneway suite planning framework that will (hopefully) be implemented by the City of Toronto. So I wanted to encourage you all [to complete it](http://lanescape.ca/survey/). Even if you don’t live in Toronto, still fill it out. It’s important for cities to learn from each other.

Your support will go a long way in making laneway housing a reality in the city.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/show-some-laneway-love)*