Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has put together a new housing committee that will inherit the task of easing the city's housing shortage. Advocates and committee members say they're hopeful the mayor's new vision leads to long-lasting change.
Toronto's new planning and housing committee is inheriting the task of not only easing the city's housing shortage and affordability crisis, but helping it achieve the municipality's largerComprised of both councillors who supported and opposed Olivia Chow during the mayoral byelection, the commitee may have some questioning how it'll work together to solve the problem.on Friday, said she isn't worried about differences in ideology getting in the way.
The committee, with Coun. Gord Perks as chair and former chair and city planner Coun. Brad Bradford as vice-chair, is tasked with delivering on Chow's campaign promise of building 25,000 rent-controlled homes over the next eight years.