Minutes after community members and advocates finished a rally at Marion Dewar Plaza on Wednesday morning calling for more money for affordable housing, the city revealed a 2019 draft budget that contained a record-breaking investment in the area.
On Wed, Feb 6th just one hour before City Council met to discuss the draft budget for 2019, ACORN members with our allies led a citywide rally outside City Hall calling for more funding for affordable housing.
“With Doug Ford in power, it’s going to be even easier for landlords to force people out and raise the rents.”
Yesterday Toronto City Council voted to approve the Housing Now initiative.
Mayor John Tory says he is confident a plan to build nearly 10,000 new rental units on city-owned land will help alleviate some of the demand for affordable housing in Toronto.
Hamilton councillors agreed to create a draft bylaw for a two-year pilot program that would license rental housing units in wards one and eight. The report is expected to be before councillors this year.
This year was one of disasters, tragedy, boondoggles and love.
It stopped short of recommending vacancy control, in which rental increases would be tied to the unit rather than the tenant
Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, who headed up the Rental Housing Task Force, called the 23 recommendations it produced "balanced."
Statement on the BC Rental Housing Task Force's decision re vacancy control