At the summit, the big-city mayors will be requesting that most of the available $20 billion in federal money for “social” infrastructure be dedicated to public and affordable housing. But Toronto is facing a $2.6-billion backlog in social housing repairs for the portfolio held by its largest housing provider, Toronto Community Housing. “Some programs … aren’t even actually focused right on social housing, but they’re this energy-retrofit stuff, which will be a little helpful,” Tory said. “We have an affordable housing crisis in cities across Canada now with Vancouver and Toronto being the hardest hit,” he said. “The Trudeau government has made strong commitments to investing in social housing and addressing rental housing shortage.

Source: thestar September 25, 2016 09:56 UTC