the vacancy rate in Toronto city hall’s planning department at the end of April, according to a new report. The report cites the high cost of living in Toronto as a major challenge with recruitment and retention of city planning.
As of the end of April, about 61 of their 477 full-time equivalent jobs were unfilled — a vacancy rate of approximately 13 per cent. “Pay scales for both unionized and non-unionized staff are not competitive with both public and private employers,” the report says, bluntly. That’s compounded by the cost of living in the city, which just keeps going up. The report notes that costs like daycare and transportation, added on top of high rents or mortgage payments, “make Toronto a comparatively expensive city for prospective employees.
Wages are almost certainly going to need to go up in response, but the other piece of the equation needs to be making housing more affordable. The easiest way to do that is to increase the supply of housing getting built each year. And that should be for all types of housing, including and especially supportive housing, public housing and housing geared toward young people making entry-level salaries.
Imagine if we responded to other types of crises like Toronto has responded to its housing crisis. Say, for example, your house was on fire. Definitely a crisis. You’d respond by calling the fire department right away and getting the heck out, breaking some windows if you had to.
'There are more than a million empty homes in Canada and on any given night at least 35,000 Canadians are homeless.'
GraphicMatt Maybe ignoring money laundering through our real estate by the hundreds of billions, and sewering interest rates to next zero, while jacking immigration, foreign students, and TFWs to suppress wages and inflate housing costs was galactically stupid policy.
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