The head of the city’s real estate agency offered apartments with below-market rents exclusively to his own employees earlier this year, in violation of city policies on affordable housing, the Star has learned.
Internal emails, obtained through a freedom of information request, show Brian Johnston, then CEO of CreateTO — an arm’s length city agency started under Mayor John Tory’s administration that’s responsible for selling and leasing land to developers to build affordable housing — also sought a below-market unit for his niece from The Biddington Group, which, earlier this year, was renting out the newly built J. Davis House near Yonge Street and Davisville Avenue.
