How soon is ‘now’ on affordable housing? A big election question

This Matters

16-05-2023 • 42 mins

Guest: Mark Richardson, technical lead for HousingNowTO

According to polls and the platforms, housing affordability is THE big issue in this mayoral election campaign, especially as the city’s Housing Now program has failed to get shovels in the ground (or people in apartments). Mark Richardson’s citizen-led HousingNowTO organization has monitored the problems and progress all along, and has been taking all the major mayoral candidates on walking tours of proposed sites to show what’s holding things up and what potential is out there. He joins guest host Edward Keenan to outline what all the major candidates are proposing to build on city land (so far) and how.

This episode was produced by Paulo Marques and Edward Keenan.

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