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Opinion
Community housing report stands chance of success
W
ith all the gridiron drama unfolding in Mayor Rob Ford’s life, it’s often easy to forget that the City of Toronto has a life beyond the mayor’s, and often beyond the mayor’s reach. On Monday, Davenport Councillor Ana Bailao provided evidence of that when she unveiled the long-awaited report into dealing with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s daunting backlog of repairs and maintenance. The report, titled Putting People First, is something of a repudiation of one of Mayor Ford’s early triumphs this term, when he led the wholesale gutting of the TCHC board of directors and put ally and former councillor Case Ootes in place as a oneperson board. As a councillor under former mayors Mel Lastman and David Miller, Ootes had been a sharp critic of the TCHC’s stock of more than 600 singlefamily homes. His view had been if Toronto Community Housing’s apartments and townhouses were crumbling, the city shouldn’t be putting up tenants in large, comfortable pieces of real estate. With Mayor Ford’s sup-
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port, Ootes made the case once more as the singular board of the TCHC, and before he handed over control to the newly-appointed board, set the wheels in motion for a sell-off of that housing — in the course of it, potentially displacing subsidized tenants. balked When it came to council earlier this year, councillors balked — and in a compromise set up the task force and put Bailao in charge of finding other ways to raise the $751 million needed to erase the backlog. The new plan is much more modest. It would sell off at least 55 houses, and no more than 155 homes (with up to 100 going to tenants themselves) and look elsewhere for the money for the repair. Those tenants that would be displaced in the much more modest sell-off would be relocated to other city-owned homes in their home neighbourhood,
minimizing displacement. The housing company would otherwise look to remortgaging, bond-funding and simple efficiencies to dig into the repair backlog. Really, inasmuch as it might fit with his world view, all of this is tangential to the mayor’s agenda. In making the appointment of Ootes to run the housing company, Ford really gave an old ally an opportunity to eradicate one of his pet peeves while on council. The solution that came forward — essentially a one-time influx of an insufficient amount of cash, coupled with the removal of stock that might be seen as a little too fancy for the sorts of people who end up in affordable housing — was something council as a whole couldn’t stomach. Bailao’s report, focussing as it does on the well-being of even those tenants lucky enough to live in The Beach, stands a better chance. And so it is that the city trundles on, absent either the person or the politics of its self-immolating mayor. n David Nickle is the Mirror’s City Hall columnist. His column appears every Thursday. contact him at dnickle@insidetoronto. com
City’s blue bins now taking more items Toronto residents’ blue bins will be packed as several more items being approved for recycling. The new items include most food-related containers and packaging, and some
common household items, such as clamshell containers (hinged, clear plastic containers used for food items such as berries and takeout); clear fruit and vegetable containers; clear takeout food
containers; molded bakery item trays; and compact disc cases (empty). Items still not being recycled include plastic takeout containers with black bottoms or tops.
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