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I have to agree with you. Many of chows "revolutionary plans" have been tried in new York, san francisco, los Angeles, Portland, or every city with massive issues in right now. As much as Some people don't like Furey I see that he is the best positioned to lead Toronto. Saunders is a Doug ford ally and someone who would never tell him no which think is a big problem for a mayor.....
Revolutionary? Whoa...... no free passes on the use of that word, spell out exactly which campaign promises merit that appellation and provide evidence in support of same, please.
In respect of vacancy de-control; the comparison to SF is inapt.
I'll explain why; what is noted is that when SF went to full rent control that many landlords converted their buildings to condos to circumvent this........
However, in Toronto that is already prohibited. You simply can't eliminate rental housing w/o rebuilding it, and offering it at essentially the same rent as was previously the case (for buildings with six or more units) As such there is no material risk of a comparable outcome.
I'm not advocating one way or the other on the vacancy de-control question, nor am I Chow's defender; rather, I would like to see speech stay reasonable, well-evidenced and fair; as opposed to hyperbolic. That is equally true whether one's inclinations lean right or left or somewhere in between.
I agree with you about Furey 100% but he appears to be fading in his support with time running out. I don't find anything he has to say remotely radical. The most radical candidates are Chow and Matlow, by far.
Again, radical is a very extreme word; it cannot be used by a reasonable person without citing those specific policy proposals you deem to be radical and providing evidence to support the claim that that is a reasonable descriptor.
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