Increasingly, more people are forced to choose between rent and food, and many more are ending up homeless and hungry - all while the wealthiest individuals and corporations reap record profits. It's time to put people over profits, and guarantee affordable, accessible, safe and well-maintained housing for all.
- Stop encampment evictions and recognize the right to shelter and housing.
- Re-envision a shelter system that respects the dignity, security and wellbeing of those experiencing homelessness.
- Immediately review/reinstate the recent funding cuts to drop-ins and homelessness prevention programs.
- Create new processes to document and eliminate housing discrimination toward newcomers, racialized, Indigenous and Black Torontonians, residents on fixed incomes, survivors of gender-based violence and/or people living with disabilities.
- Fast-track building accessible, green and rent-geared-to-income public housing, targeted to those with the highest need.
- Implement a strong RentSafe Program to inspect rental properties and a new fine system to issue penalties to negligent landlords.
- Adopt a strong city-wide framework to regulate multi-tenant houses (a.k.a. rooming houses) that includes enforcement and compliance mechanisms and initiatives to support tenants and maintain affordability.
- Implement vacancy control on all units so that when tenants leave, landlords can’t double the rent.
- Create strong protections against “renovictions” and “demovictions”*. Remove the financial incentive for landlords and developers to displace tenants.
- Implement rent control on all municipally funded units (both affordable and market rent units) and make them permanently affordable.
- Increase Inclusionary Zoning rates to set-aside 20% to 30% of all new developments as deeply affordable, permanent rental housing.