Executive committee agrees to sell 56 TCHC properties
Posted February 17, 2012 8:21 pm.
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TORONTO, Ont. – Mayor Rob Ford’s executive committee has agreed to sell off 56 vacant, run-down, Toronto Community Housing properties to raise money for repairs at other units.
The sale is expected to raise at least $222-million.
TCHC executive director Len Koroneos told 680News the money is needed to prevent the embarrassing state of community housing in the city from getting worse.
“Our building will crumble and basically we’ll have less available for the people on the wait list to move into because we won’t have the money to repair these units at all.”
Hundreds of people lined up at city hall on Friday to speak to the executive committee about the sale.
Many tenants voiced their concern about being uprooted from their homes.
“That’s my community, that’s my neighbourhood and to move me out of it is going to break my family,” said one woman.
“You should be thinking of the kids. When they are forced to move they have to change schools, day cares and friends,” said one little girl.
A panel is being set up to report back in September on what to do with 600 other units that are currently occupied.
