Friday, June 17, 2011

Mayor Ford and Co. move to throw poor into the street

The sale of 22 single-family Toronto Community Housing Corp. houses is the start of a great social housing sell-off — a sea change in the way the city houses the needy, critics charge.

Allies of Mayor Rob Ford did little to quiet the speculation Wednesday, with one key member suggesting 900 other houses are next, followed by some of TCHC’s apartment blocks.

“We have to revisit our policies on all of it,” Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti told reporters. “The city is stuck with an old stock of housing that we just cannot fix up. We’ve got to make some very difficult decisions.”


About other people's lives, but hey, it's not us so WHEEEEEEEE

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