We need complete communities where you can afford to move out of your parent's home, where there are lots of 3 and 4 bedroom units to raise a family, where there are . stable, affordable places to retire. All close to all of the amenities that Toronto has to offer.

• Place redundant city properties in municipal land trusts for building housing.

• Favour non-profits, co-ops and cohousing.

• Make it easier to build six-story wood-frame apartments, to build small multi-unit dwellings in single-family zones, and enable rational built forms in high rises.

• Streamline the planning process by consolidating review into a single department, reducing redundant requirements, the number of reviewers, public meetings not required by the Planning Act, and meet the timeframes in the Ontario Planning Act.

These actions will not solve all housing affordability issues. For example, it is unlikely that the market can deliver adequate housing to the lowest income brackets. We need to support Toronto Community Housing to meet these needs.

Some of these actions are already underway at the city. I intend to support these action sand ensure that they are effective.

Toronto has a huge role to play in transitioning to decarbonized energy by making it easier for individuals to make the change. Our city alone controls 2-3% of Canada’s GHG emissions through transportation and building policy.

• When natural gas equipment is replaced in existing residential and commercial building, it must be replaced with electric equipment: heat pumps, induction stoves, electric water heaters.

• Support all forms of electric personal transportation: cars, bikes, and scooters.

• Improve service on the TTC, in wait times but also making it cleaner and more beautiful.

• All new buildings in Toronto to be heated using electric heat pumps.

• Use Toronto Hydro to ensure a practical, orderly switch to electricity.

• Phase out the Portlands Gas Plant.

• Measure our progress in actual numbers and change the processes when they are not delivering.

Toronto needs to do our part to ensure a future for generations to come, and we need to start now.