As mayor, Olivia Chow will make Toronto a more affordable, safe and caring city. This page will continue to be updated with her plans over the course of the election.
Libraries open seven days a week
Olivia will expand weekday library hours and ensure every Toronto Public Library branch is open seven days a week - including Sundays - so families can have more access to these important community hubs.
Building more homes you can afford
Olivia will help address Toronto’s housing crisis by enabling the City of Toronto to build 25,000 new rental homes on city-owned land.
Preventing renovictions
Olivia will help end renovictions by making it easier for the City to purchase affordable units and transfer them to non-profits, like land-trusts.
Better crisis response
To ensure people get the help they need in a crisis, Olivia Chow will expand community crisis teams city-wide and improve 911 wait times.
Urgently addressing homelessness
Olivia Chow will strengthen the City’s approach to supporting people out of homelessness and keeping people housed.
Improving public transit
Olivia rides the TTC to get around and has depended on it her entire life here in Toronto. So she knows that public transit must be safe, convenient and affordable. Olivia is committed to reversing the recent service cuts and significantly improving transit service to make sure it is fast and reliable.
Keep Scarborough transit riders moving
Olivia Chow will make sure Scarborough transit riders are treated fairly and can keep moving when the Scarborough RT closes by creating a dedicated, off-street bus rapid transit line – or busway – along the RT corridor.
Luxury homes tax
Olivia Chow will ask the wealthiest Torontonians to chip in more through a luxury homes tax. She'll use the money to support people out of homelessness.
Support for renters
As a renter, you deserve a home that’s affordable, safe and well-maintained and when times are tough, you should be able to rely on the City for help staying in your home.
Raise the Vacant Homes Tax
Housing should be lived in, not sit empty as a commodity for speculators. Olivia will raise the Vacant Homes Tax from 1% to 3% to make more homes available and will use the funds from the tax for affordable housing initiatives.
Keep Ontario Place public
Olivia believes Torontonian's deserve a say on the future of Ontario Place and their waterfront. She's against the provincial government's plan to build a luxury mega-spa on the site.
This is a once in a generation opportunity to build a magnificent public park that is open to everyone
Save the Science Centre
Olivia is opposed to ripping the Ontario Science Centre out of the Flemingdon and Thorncliffe neighbourhoods to move it downtown.
Respecting local democracy
Olivia is committed to strengthening local democracy. She will never use the "strong mayor" powers to override the will of City Council or the people of Toronto.