Toronto city council is debating a sweeping housing plan today that aims to address the affordability crisis by significantly transforming zoning bylaws.
Toronto Mayor John Tory's proposal, called the "2023 Housing Action Plan," would allow multiplexes to be built in neighbourhoods that are currently restricted to single-family homes.
It would also legalize rooming houses across the city instead of only in some parts.
The plan intends to help the city exceed or meet the target it was recently given by the province to build 285,000 homes over the next 10 years.
Tory says many of the immigrants Canada is welcoming in the next few years will settle in Toronto and it is the city's responsibility to make sure it has housing available for them.
If approved by council, city staff will have until March to bring a report to the executive committee outlining how the homes will be built.
This report by 春色直播was first published Dec. 14, 2022.
