Shell-shocked: Homeowners reeling as Ontario Line gobbles up more Toronto homes [Video]

Twenty-five properties in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood are being expropriated for the construction of the Ontario Line.

Metrolinx told Global News in a statement that “updated assessments” revealed the homes between Langley and Riverdale avenues are “vulnerable to potential structural impacts … due to tunnelling activities.”

Resident said the news came as a shock.

“We’re all a little shell-shocked, a little numb, but also angry, too, because if we’d known a couple of years ago that this was going to happen, I think we would have all changed our plans in selling our homes and thinking of what our options were. And now the option to move, the option to decide when and where we want to live … it’s been taken away from us,” said Kate Maynard, whose home is among those being expropriated.

Maynard said she received a letter in the mail earlier this month advising her of a meeting with Metrolinx several days later.

“We were informed …