Strong-mayor Tory makes a bold bet on new housing
Or at least he promises to. On Wednesday,will bring his 2023 Housing Action Plan to city council. His message to politicians and staff: Toronto should actually make an effort to get housing built. The city must “meet or exceed” an ambitious goal of building 285,000 homes over 10 years. That’s about a 60 per cent increase over the past decade.
The details will get technical, and Mr. Tory understands that it’ll be necessary to get into the weeds: he specifically asked city planning staff to take a new lens to all their policy-making. But it is. The status quo is a bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine. Toronto isn’t building nearly enough housing to accommodate those who want to live here. And all new housing is crammed into less than 10 per cent of the city. Existing apartment buildings are demolished to build bigger ones – too bad for the tenants. New towers crowd together on post-industrial brownfields.
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