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This couple has lived in Don Mills for 60 years at 57 Jocelyn Cres. They purchased the house in 1959 for $19,000. After they passed, their son sold it, for more than $2 million.

@shawnmicallef on housing, and how the playing field has radically changed.
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The home was featured on a 1998 Canada Post stamp, part of a series that paid tribute to the evolution of housing history in Canada and a recognition of “more than 50 years of service by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (established in 1946).”
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Don Mills is certainly one of the most influential postwar communities in the country, essentially setting the image of what modern suburbia looked like. Street after street of neat bungalows and splits.
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A walk in Don Mills is not what it once was though. Like many neighbourhoods not locked down by blanket heritage conservation district protections, many perfectly mod homes have slowly been replaced by highly renovated ones or McMansions
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Housing, of course, follows its own wild inflationary patterns, but that’s something to remember next time the question of why it’s harder for young people, or anyone without lots of cash, to afford: the playing field is radically different. @shawnmicallef
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