Ms. Chow will have to contend with outside factor including construction costs, labour markets, interest rates, and securing support from the provincial and federal governments
Toronto’s incoming mayor Olivia Chow will face significant hurdles when she takes office, inheriting a housing crisis, concerns about deterioratingMs. Chow, who won 37 per cent of the vote in Monday’s by-election
Ms. Chow’s plan includes having the city act as a developer to build 25,000 rental units over eight years, at least 20 per cent of which would be affordable units and another 10 per cent rent geared to income units . She also plans to create a $100-million affordable homes fund focused on stopping evictions for renovations.
“I’m just pretty skeptical that there’s going to be the political will to have the financial will,” he told The Globe. “I don’t know that there’s a good roadmap on how to get there.” She has also spoken and written about the adversity she faced in her early life, including writing a memoir about her journey to Toronto from Hong Kong at the age of 13. Her family struggled to get by and her father was abusive toward her mother. Ms. Chow’s husband and long-time political ally Jack Layton died in 2011.
Her victory indicates the scope of her comeback, and belies her downtown roots. She won handily in a number of wards far from the city centre, including five in Scarborough that former mayor John Tory won last fall. She also edged runner-up Ana Bailão in Willowdale, a north Toronto seat that is held provincially by a Progressive Conservative and federally by a Liberal.
Former municipal councillor Joe Mihevc sat beside Ms. Chow for eight years at city hall, and remembers her ability to work with people to find “the island of agreement.”
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