How Olivia Chow voted at council

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1. 2025.PH19.10ADOPTED

   Replacement Units for Demovicted Dwelling Room Tenants

   Dwelling room tenants are among Toronto’s most vulnerable residents, and their supply of housing is under severe development pressure. In 2019, after the loss of several such buildings and 4 years of consultations, Council adopted Official Plan Amendment 453, Policies to Address the Loss of Dwelling Rooms. This added a new Policy 11: New development that would … result in the loss of six or more dwelling rooms will not be approved unless:… i. at least the same amount of residential gross floor area is replaced and maintained as dwelling rooms or rental bachelor units. The replacement units are rent-controlled for 15 years, and demovicted tenants receive some tenant assistance. Policy 11 provides valuable protection for tenants of dwelling rooms. However, it has a critical flaw: unlike those demovicted from dwelling units, those demovicted from dwelling rooms do not have a guaranteed right to return to the replacement building. Why? Because the owner’s replacement obligation is to preserve “the same amount of residential gross floor area”, not the same number of units. This flaw causes real hardship. For example, consider the 39 dwelling room t…

   City Council · 2025-03-27 14:48 PM

   Adopt Item

   Olivia Chow's vote: Yes

   Majority required - PH19.10 - Adopt the item

   Motion result

   Carried

   Recorded tally

   22-1

   Source outcome