STOREYS spoke to chloebrownTO about her plans to modernize and improve Toronto's practices for renting, taxation and development. TOpoli realestate housing housingcrisis
Ahead of Monday’s election, STOREYS spoke with Brown about the issues entrenching housing and transit in Toronto and her desire to overhaul the status quo.I’ve been working my butt off saving for a down payment, but everything’s so expensive. Because I’m young and single, my down payment increases by 10% to 15%. No matter how hard you work in this city, there are so many administrative barriers to realizing your life.
I’m trying to push for using technology to make our systems smarter. One of the things I’m looking at is modernizing our procurement and permitting systems so they’re user-friendly for the sector that needs them. There needs to be a better system for the property ladder. And that’s where I think technology could help. We know housing is out there, we just don’t know the quality of housing, we don’t know who the owners of it are, and we don’t really have a good enforcement system for turning rental communities into permanent residences. I would like to see apartments as a part of rent-to-own programs.
Using geo-information systems and a variety of other open data sources, we can start creating a point system for determining the value of land. I think it’s so important to have that because when we talk about tax fairness, we have people subsidizing certain landowners. And one of those groups is churches and charities. Even our universities are some of the largest landowners in the country.Addressing the “missing middle” is a hot topic right now.
For me, it’s about using strong mayor powers to just get it done. And also just being very blunt with a lot of these resident and homeowners associations. They can either pay for the cost of having a large homeless community or they can welcome new neighbours. Secondly, I would invest in creating a smarter corridor. I would like to convert the Toronto Police Parking Enforcement into a unit that works with city planning and the Transportation Services Act, so we have a unit of people working on creating a smarter transit network.
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