Toronto Renters Forum
Social Aspects of Renting => Housing Affordability => Topic started by: CoffeeLover on December 09, 2021, 06:48:12 pm
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The Ontario Government has announced the creation of a so-called "Housing Affordability Task Force", and as you'd expect from Ford, he's populated the task force with rich bankers and investors, none of whom have any idea what's really going on for the average person, let alone actual poor people.
Here's a link to the announcement:
https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1001286/ontario-names-chair-and-members-of-housing-affordability-task-force (https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1001286/ontario-names-chair-and-members-of-housing-affordability-task-force)
... and here are the members of the committee... I've marked them RED or GREEN depending upon whether they are likely to have ever not immediately crossed the street upon seeing an approaching homeless person:
• Jake Lawrence, Chief Executive Officer and Group Head, Global Banking and Markets, Scotiabank, will serve as chair of the Task Force.
• Lalit Aggarwal, President, Manor Park Management, a real estate development and operating company.
• David Amborski, Professional Urban Planner and Professor, Ryerson University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, his specific interests include the area of municipal finance, land development, and land value capture tools.
• Julie Di Lorenzo, President, Diamante Urban Corp, operates one of the largest real estate companies in Canada.
• Andrew Garrett, Senior Principal, Real Estate, Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, is responsible for more than $11 billion Global Real Estate portfolio.
• Tim Hudak, Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Real Estate Association, Canada’s largest provincial real estate industry association representing 82,000 REALTORS®.
• Justin Marchand, Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services
• Ene Underwood, Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area
• David Wilkes, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Building Industry and Land Development Association, has served the majority of his career working for industry associations previously representing retail and consumer packaged goods industries.
I'm sure that we'll see lots of helpful and compassionate ideas and initiatives emerge from this exclusive bunch from the country-club set...
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I'm glad that this is being reported, if not in the mainstream media, then here at least. (And I think it's terrific the way your colour-coded the members!)
Typical Ford though, isn't it? The "Theatre" of social support, but stuffed with cronies who will out-number the two actual housing activists in the group to ensure that things stay the same, or more likely, get worse. These are the sorts of people who caused the housing crisis with their policies and greed.
What a waste of time.
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Ford is no friend of renters!
As someone on a pro-tenant mailing list pointed out, he has a long history of doing the opposite instead of helping renters...
Doug Ford is Quietly Planning Over $100 Million in Cuts to Housing and Rent Support Programs (https://pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-is-quietly-planning-over-100-million-in-cuts-to-housing-and-rent-support-programs/)
Premier Ford is promising affordable housing, again. It’s time he delivered (https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2020/07/13/premier-ford-is-promising-affordable-housing-again-its-time-he-delivered.html)