Opinion: By electing a mayor and council committed to housing 1.4 million more residents by 2051, Torontonians can defeat sprawl in the Greater Golden Horseshoe and tackle car-dependency, housing shortages and income segregation at home.
in this year’s 2022 municipal elections will have the power to rescue Ontario from some of its biggest environmental problems.
To help make that happen, “environment voters” are already embracing the role of cheerleaders for new apartments, townhomes, shops, offices and other amenities in our own backyards. To deliver wins where it counts, we must now take on the less cheery task of confronting the so-called “green NIMBYs” who continue to pose as part of our movement while sabotaging the green urban transformation we’re fighting for.
than there are households who want to live here and keeping lowrise suburban neighbourhoods “stable,” the majority that now controls Toronto’s city council has been forcing would-be Torontonians into car-dependent, habitat-destroying tract housing in the 905. That’s why Toronto’s most seasoned grassroots environmentalists are now showing up at community consultation meetings, city council and on municipal election doorsteps, to speak in favour of welcoming “missing middle” housing in neighbourhoods and maximizing the number of new apartments approved around public transit stations. Polling by Environmental Defence now shows that so-called “YIMBYs” — who support this kind of change in their own neighbourhoods — now significantly outnumber “NIMBYs.
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