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Stephanie Bowman

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Don Valley West
  • Ontario Liberal Party
  • Ontario
  • Suite 101 795 Eglinton Ave. E Toronto, ON M4G 4E4 sbowman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
  • tel: 416-425-6777
  • fax: 416-425-0350
  • sbowman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

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Well, certainly building affordable housing is something I think we all agree needs to be a priority. I think that certainly in the recent debate going on amongst the Liberal leadership candidates, there have been lots of ideas put forward about positive ideas around housing, including having a fund that could actually build social housing.

So I think that is something that is certainly being discussed at length right now amongst our caucus and our leadership candidates, and I think that we’ve got a view in this government where we need to help them see that investing in affordable housing is actually positive. In my riding recently, I was surprised to learn about a transit-oriented community that will be built with Metrolinx, and I hope they might consider things like co-op housing there.

A billion dollars is absolutely sufficient for a contingency fund, especially in this time when we know that we’ve got programs that are underfunded, so—

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