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Fred Mar 19, 2025

Grayden Smith is the Associate Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

Sheena Sharp for Don Valley West Feb 18, 2025

Homes We Can Afford in Places We Love – by building new affordable, family-sized homes we can alleviate housing pressures for everyone. More options and sizes means that we can maintain social connections with the community.
#onhousing #affordability #toronto #onpoli

Fred Feb 12, 2025

The Ontario Greens are the first party to release their full platform: https://www.cp24.com/ontario-election-2025/2025/02/12/ontario-green-party-vows-to-cancel-ontario-place-spa-redevelopment-highway-413-bradford-bypass-as-part-of-election-platform/ https://gpo.ca/platform/

This is exciting. They're making bold promises and commitments.

#GPO #onpoli #OntarioElection #ONELXN #onhousing #housing #affordablehousing #onted #environment #environmentalism #onhealth #healthcare #municipalaffairs

Ontario Green Party vows to cancel Ontario Place spa redevelopment, Highway 413, Bradford Bypass as part of election platform

The Ontario Green Party is promising to cancel the construction of a controversial spa planned for Ontario Place as well as Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass as part of its election platform.

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The Leveller · Community News Oct 30, 2024

"People are being displaced from their homes so that landlords can use housing to maximize profit. The law currently helps landlords to do this and does not include any meaningful safeguards for tenants defending their homes."

How are #Ontario housing rental rules enabling landlords to displace tenants for more profit?

The Leveller explores vacancy decontrol and what it has done to people living in #Ottawa recently.

https://leveller.ca/2024/10/rental-policies-enable-landlords-to-displace-tenants/

#ottpoli #onpoli #onhousing

Rental Policies Enable Landlords to Displace Tenants - The Leveller

By Emily Miller The provincial governments’ policies have made tenant eviction profitable. Mass evictions, like the one currently being carried out by Smart Living Properties (SLP) of Bank Block Tenants (BBT) in Centretown, have become a common strategy for landlords to extract more money from tenants. They can do this because governments at all levels …

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The Leveller · Community News Oct 28, 2024

Will Community Land Trusts - non-profit property ownership off of the speculative for-profit market - be the way forward for affordable housing in #Ottawa #Ontario?

We explore this possibility and local activities throughout the province.

Read about it here: https://leveller.ca/2024/10/living-off-the-community-land-trusts/

#ottpoli #onpoli #onhousing #cdnpoli

Living Off The (Community) Land (Trusts) - The Leveller

By Josh Lalonde There is widespread dissatisfaction with the state of housing in Canada. An Ipsos poll released in June showed that 78% of Canadians believed that owning a home in Canada is only for the rich, and 62% of non-homeowners said they had given up on ever owning a home. Only 23% of Canadians …

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