Housing

Toronto needs a serious housing strategy with the building of more co-op and community housing and fighting to get the province to implement stricter rent controls, especially in high rise and condo buildings.

We need to bring in landlord licensing so that landlords who consistently fail to keep units in good repair and meet basic standards of conduct lose their right to be landlords.

Public housing, which has been neglected and allowed to fall into disrepair over the past 20 years must be raised to a higher standard. We need to end homelessness in Toronto. Housing is a basic human right that needs to be made more affordable. Far too many Torontonians are homeless or one paycheque away from homelessness. This is unacceptable.


We also need to continue the fight to abolish the pro-developer Ontario Municipal Board.

Some links on housing, including the fight that Natalie and I went through to get justice and restitution from our landlord:

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-laxer/2014/01/pursuing-judgment-against-landlord-ontario-and-case-landlord-li

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/03/12/highrise_hell_for_lowincome_families_in_toronto.html

http://theorigami.ca/2014/03/16/immigrants-torontos-hidden-homeless/

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