Andrea Horwath and Marianne Meed Ward hope funding and supports from the two other levels of government will expedite developments amid a housing crunch.
Earlier today, Mayor Olivia Chow celebrated the start of construction of 725 new rental homes, including 218 new affordable rental homes, at the first Housing
Ground has broken on Toronto’s first Housing Now project, five years after City Council approved a plan to use surplus City of Toronto-owned lands to build affordable housing and mixed-income communities near transit.
Housing Now was supposed to deliver thousands of units quickly, but four years later it has stalled on a shaky economy, infrastructure issues and bureaucracy.