It’s been a very busy fall and winter in Toronto Centre and at City Hall, and I’m proud to see that more and more results are visibly taking shape.
Together, we’ve made real progress and delivered real results. Encampments in our parks are now virtually zero: the plan that my team and I have put in place, in conjunction with fast responses by our City’s social services partners, has meant that hundreds of people have now come out of the cold and into supportive and transitional housing, where they can better access the supports and services they need.
Similarly, here in Toronto Centre we’ve achieved 10,257 housing starts: we’re building and delivering more housing and affordable housing. We’ve acquired a new, much larger building for the St Lawrence Library to move to in a couple of years so that it can serve Moss Park as well. We even made our voices heard and reversed a proposed cut to the Downtown East Action Plan – which now will really start ramping up this spring and summer.