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Housing, Development & Properties

Municipal planning and zoning decisions shape where and how housing is built, while balancing affordability, infrastructure, and neighbourhood needs.

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Housing Affordability Crisis:

  • Approve mid‑rise (6–12 storey) buildings along all major corridors.
  • Require inclusionary zoning (affordable units in every new development).
  • Convert underused city‑owned land into mixed‑income housing.
  • Manikantan Nair

    Manikantan Nair

    Candidate for Kitchener

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    A place to call home: Homes that families can afford, options for seniors to stay in their neighbourhoods, cooperatives etc, and smaller and flexible options for young people, open to discussing the possibilities of fourplexes

    Wazhma Frogh

    Wazhma Frogh

    Candidate for Kitchener

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    Right to housing: Leveraging public land, social housing boom, vertical communities bylaw, age in place program, 24/7 low barrier hubs, safe tenting framework

    David Alton

    David Alton

    Candidate for Kitchener