Tory, who is seeking a third term, announced his first campaign policy about housing Tuesday morning, ahead of the municipal election in October.
“We also need to include the option to create duplexes, triplexes, as well as the kind of walk-up apartment buildings found in many pre-war neighbourhoods,” Tory said. In an effort to create more co-op, supportive and affordable housing, Tory said he wants to allocate a portion of city-owned land to be developed by non-profit organizations.
I heard that few years ago building houses for the people's needed I don't see nothing is construction here construction there and nothing coming up we need the houses Mr John Tory
Maybe he should add more home care building. There's not a whole lot of them. There's plenty of space.
The new plan is to build homes faster. That is to say, do precisely what they have been doing for the past 10 years, only faster.
Probably will build housing the same way build transit he promised the first time was elected 8 years ago.
After raising development charges and fees by 50% and more?
More condos you can double up if you approve making cages of 200 square feet..
Over priced .new young families can not afford to rent or buy
What happened to his plan when he was first elected
Hasn't he been Mayor for eight years already?
Will build homes and then roads with only 2 lanes so can give contracts later to friends for a third lane later
Oh please. Knowing how things are done in Toronto, it’s more like a 50-yr plan 🙄
He’s destroyed this city . He’s not building affordable homes . He’s building condos that nobody can afford
Time for new blood at City hall. Out with the old (literally)
No problem with conflict of interest, of course.
Just do what they do in Tibet.
He is a failure.
Who told him or requested to make a plan to run for another term?
concrete needs to set 30days.
How many homes is Tory building Zero
LoL - banks are already outsourcing employees overseas. One of the big 5 made an announcement today.
Tory OUT
So where was this amazing plan hiding this whole time and why are we only hearing about it just before the election?
Tax foreign buyers…..
Five point..as in a pentagram 😈
This is a joke. You should have a one point plan like rental controls? New homes are being built on a regular basis and rent still goes up to levels no one can afford.
Watch for the same plan again in 2026
Good old John Tory. He's always got a plan. Problem is all of his plans end right after the talking part is over.
Build homes with what workers? Lol.
Past time to retire, Mr Mayor
Step 1: fire John Tory
Another politician promising to 'do something' about our housing crisis on the eve of an election. Of course he has already become wealthy due to the crisis and has had many years to 'do something'. But lets not confuse things with the facts. He won't do a damn thing.
He won’t do a damn thing.
He is the most horrible Mayor in entire history of city, He give a lot of stress with his miss management, Look at the crime graph,traffic backlog ,and street then you will know he is a horrible.
Great... build homes faster = shit quality
Build 'em faster... but fall apart quicker and less attention paid to quality details and workmanship. As long as they keep standing until he's no longer Mayor of Toronto, John Tory will continue to choose profits over people. He simply wants to pacify people, not empower them.
First step make it 50% more expensive per home for developers to build so they can pass that on to the consumer for lower prices somehow lol
Plan 1 Put immigration into Canada on hold....
Maybe he should sell some of his assets to help?
What kind of deal did Ford make with Tory?
Really. Toronto City Council Votes in Favour of Raising Development Charges Nearly 50%. Toronto City Council voted to hike development charges, adding more than $40,000 in fees to some development application processes.
Less regulations, a developer’s dream and Tory (Conservative) goal. Don’t be misled...the big winners here are the developers.
Affordable my ass jonny, since you become mayor buying and renting in Toronto is like Nightmare🤬 You got a go.
ha ha . No offence dude , why didn’t you bring it up in the last 8 years ?
5 point plan... Well that should do it!
Gee, it almost sounds like an election ploy.
The plan should be 1) To sell vacant land cheaply and require developers to pass that saving to the home buyer 2) scale up and build way more houses to keep up with immigration levels. Use emergent building technologies, like 3D printing, already in use in places like Texas.
Just tell everyone who bought 30 years ago that they can only resell for 100% markup.
Here's an idea, instead of re-engineering Regent park for the rich and kicking out/relocating the original tennants, maybe it should have been kept for low income housing? Just a thought....not everything has to be about making $$ regentpark fail
They are “cutting red tape” by creating another Divison 🧐
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Ah. He sees it. Meet the new premier.
ship them to NYC
Rightt
Is such 5 point plan that requires multi yr of thinking? Or is just a market scheme for election. You take my guess
Can't even watch you anymore you've turned into tory tv
And home builders will continue to build crap homes and continue to make large amounts of money
Let me guess, more bike lanes, changing the colours of the Toronto sign and silly proclamations. What's the other two points of the plan?
Just another way to say ' plan to launder tax money into his pockets.'
Please, PLEASE make more homes for everyone. It's what I dream about every day. I did everything I was supposed to do, but in 10 years the price of condos tripled!
Hey, Mr. Rogers has been mayor for almost a decade, through the biggest, fastest rise in housing prices in history, and *now* he cares about housing?
BlahTO blahTO blahTO blahTO blahTO in summary. Useless mayor. Needs to be voted out.
Houses can only be built so fast. Faster means someone is cutting corners.
The only point worth noting is the one aimed at the door where we need to direct Traitor Tory through.
Does it include stopping the construction of condo towers used for foreign money laundering?
Anybody that takes this man seriously needs their head checked. How many years has he been in office? What has he done since then? NOTHING. And it doesn’t stop at housing. He’s failed right across the board.
Stop putting homeless people on buses and sending them down to Niagara.
Yea build them out of cardboard. And stop putting in fucking bike lanes everywhere.
Lies!!! Vote his ass out
By far the worst MAYOR ! The opioid crisis & homelessness in the city is all due to his lack of support!
LOL . Ya sure .
Say sorry!
They can't be building areas like the Jungle. Low cost housing can't be a breeding ground for gangs. Incorporate recreation centres, and green space for outdoor activities.
How you gonna build affordable homes with the price of material and labour are so high?
Do I have to wait 20 years of raising living costs for this?
Lower taxes that's how u tackle affordability. Duh
So he's going to change the colour of T O R O N
Malcolm X described john tory: TorontosMayor
Nothing about all the violence ?
What ever happened to SmartTrack JohnTory
By another doubling of development fees? Those fees inflate the price of housing. Don't listen to this doublespeak, Toronto is doing nothing to address it. They are making the situation worse.
Broski who is building the houses, the framing trade is literally dead.
Time for a change in leadership in Toronto
Affordable housing is the ultimate oxymoron. Grow smaller.
All these politicians ever do is talk about affordable housing, but affordability only gets worse.
Who else is running against our beloved mayor?
Blackrock and Vanguard thank him
how about repair toronto housing faster .....
They just raised the cost of home building. Also where can you build a new home in Toronto?
He'll solve the crisis same as he improved the traffic, scheduled construction so traffic can move . And all the other promises he didn't do 4 years ago. Time for term limits
Same '5-point' plan as Ford's 5-point plan for the health care crisis? Sounds like collusion!
Dont be fooled,,will lockdown you down again…destroy families from putting food on the table .. Dont forget ,Trust is gone in this thing.
Well they will need a plan to replace all the homes being destroyed by the Ontario Line. Maybe those people can get first dibs so they have some place to move to. Although replacing a gorgeous historical home with a new build kinda sucks.
'There are more than a million empty homes in Canada and on any given night at least 35,000 Canadians are homeless.'
As long it aligns with his master Doug Ford, who actually runs the city it should get approved.
Is he gonna stop big corps from buy up all the new builds. and just status quo like now. Big percentage of new builds are big corps before there are even built.
He's at least kinda listened what people have been asking for for his entire term.
Novelty is starting run out fast, affordable homes are a thing in the past now
Good luck…. Ain’t happening any faster
Hahaha they been sayong that for five years they dont know how to plan anything Covid Pandemic proved thay
SmartTrack was a plan too. Where’s that at JohnTory ?
Will read it, but there needs to be provisions to ensure 1st time home buyers get first crack at a percentage of new builds before they get scooped up by landlords or investors
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