The committee, with Coun. Gord Perks as chair and former chair and city planner Coun. Brad Bradford as vice-chair, is tasked with delivering on Chow’s campaign promise of building 25,000 rent-controlled homes over the next eight years.
And while it may be a lofty goal to get shovels in the ground within the next three year’s of Chow’s term, Perks says the city has no choice but to deliver if it wants to get ahead of the housing shortage.
Just what Toronto needs – great swaths of run down crime ridden social housing.
