Year: 2023

Toronto: tax on vacant homes, increase approved

TORONTO – Toronto City Council has approved the increase of the vacancy tax from 1% to 3%. “Housing costs are so incredibly high, that’s why housing is the first topic before the City Council today” Mayor Olivia Chow told reporters before the City Council meeting Wednesday. “We are asking speculators who are leaving apartments empty, in the midst of a housing crisis, to pay a little more so we can raise millions and millions of dollars that we will use to purchase public buildings. These could be older buildings. but they’re affordable buildings. We want to protect these buildings so we can make them available to people to ensure that renters have affordable homes forever”. 

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