Former Toronto councillor tapped to scale up Canada’s reasonably priced housing inventory

The federal Liberals have positioned their hopes for scaling up Canada’s reasonably priced housing inventory in Ana Bailão, a former Toronto metropolis councillor.

Bailão has greater than a decade of expertise with reasonably priced housing recordsdata at Toronto City Hall and was first elected to metropolis council in 2010.

She served as deputy to former mayor John Tory for 5 years till 2022 and ran unsuccessfully to interchange him after his resignation the next 12 months.

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Since leaving council, she has labored for developer Dream Unlimited as head of each reasonably priced housing and public affairs.

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Carney launches federal housing company in effort to double building tempo

Toronto’s former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat says having expertise in each private and non-private sector housing is a priceless asset for the incoming Build Canada Homes CEO.

The Liberals launched the brand new company on Sunday in Ottawa with $13 billion in funding and plans to supervise building of 4,000 properties on six federally owned websites.