How Anthony Perruzza voted at council

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1. 2024.EX17.4AMENDED

   Redesigning the Vacant Home Tax Program and Supporting Housing Supply

   In 2021, City Council approved the Vacant Home Tax (VHT) as a policy tool to help address the housing crisis that exists in Toronto. The primary objective of the VHT is to improve housing availability by reducing the number of residential properties that would otherwise be left vacant. The VHT program creates a disincentive for property owners to leave residential properties vacant and encourages them to bring these homes into the active rental or ownership housing market. Where property owners choose to keep a property vacant, revenues collected from the program are invested in initiatives that increase or preserve housing supply, such as the City’s Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition (MURA) Program. While the VHT program is still relatively new in Toronto, evidence from other jurisdictions has shown that it is an effective policy tool to increase housing supply. As seen in Vancouver, their equivalent policy tool to the VHT has directly resulted in an increase in housing stock in the rental market. While the VHT program is an important policy tool to support housing supply in the City, the 2023 declaration process that culminated last April was incredibly challenging for res…

   City Council · 2024-10-10 17:22 PM

   Amend Item (Additional)

   Anthony Perruzza's vote: No

   Majority required - EX17.4 - Bradford - motion 3

   Motion result

   Lost

   Recorded tally

   5-18

   Source outcome