Municipal planning and zoning decisions shape where and how housing is built, while balancing affordability, infrastructure, and neighbourhood needs.
With a background in community and social psychology, Ward said she’d bring academic research and evidence-based planning to bear on issues such as homelessness and affordability.
“One of the things that governments get stuck in is the same old way,” she said. “There’s often a fear of trying new and creative and out-of-the-box approaches.”
Cindy Ward
Candidate for Kitchener
Housing Affordability Crisis:
Manikantan Nair
Candidate for Kitchener
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
Candidate for Kitchener
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
Candidate for Kitchener
