1/ Two-Years ago today, Mayor @JohnTory announced the #HousingNow program to develop new #AffordableHousing and #WorkforceHousing on surplus City-owned lands near Transit in #TOPoli... https://twitter.com/JohnTory/status/1071077049408872449

2/...there wasn't much detail attached to those original Eleven (11) sites for the Mayor's #HousingNow program, so our #CivicTech & #OpenData volunteers created an interactive-map to track the City's progress on the new #AffordableHousing development sites in #TOPoli...

3/ ...over the last 2-Years, the Mayor's #HousingNow program has increased from Eleven (11) to Seventeen (17) sites, but the process of rezoning-approvals & tendering these new #AffordableHousing projects has been SLOWER than expected in #TOPoli...

PDF - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2020/ra/bgrd/backgroundfile-158773.pdf

4/ ...some of the delays on certain #HousingNow sites have been caused by @Metrolinx changes like the #OntarioLine & delays on the Eglinton @CrosstownTO LRT schedule.

Others are from City pace on rezoning-approvals & RFP tendering within #TOPoli...

PDF - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2020/ra/bgrd/backgroundfile-158774.pdf

5/ ...over the last 2-years, only 4 of the original 11 sites identified for #HousingNow have made it through the formal #TOPoli rezoning-approvals at WILSON, MERTON, VICTORIA PARK & WARDEN.

RFPs have been issued for 3 of the sites, but none of the winning-bids are PUBLIC yet...