RESPECT OUR COMMUNITIES

Our communities deserve more than survival. They deserve respect.

Toronto Centre is one of the most diverse, vibrant, and resilient communities in the city. But too many residents are being pushed out, priced out, ignored, or left behind. Our campaign is rooted in a simple belief: people deserve to live with dignity, stability, opportunity, and respect.

As your councillor, Walied will listen, show up, and deliver.

01

Housing is a Human Right

Build housing tied to people's incomes, not market speculation.

  • Champion rent-geared-to-income, non-profit, and co-op housing
  • Enforce OPA 558 and stop renovictions, demovictions, and financialization
  • Use public land for public benefit, not private speculation
  • Speed up repairs and retrofits without pushing tenants out
02

Invest in Communities

Safer neighbourhoods start with investment, not neglect.

  • Expand Social Development Plans citywide, building on the Regent Park model
  • Secure long-term core funding, end the cycle of short-term pilots
  • Resource grassroots leadership in youth, tenant, food, and mental health work
  • Direct city investment into neighbourhoods that have been left behind
03

Access to Space

Community space is essential infrastructure.

  • Introduce a Community Space Guarantee for centres, parks, and cultural hubs
  • Retrofit unused city-owned buildings into youth, senior, and newcomer spaces
  • Require new developments to deliver real, usable community space
  • Protect existing spaces from displacement by redevelopment
04

Good Jobs & Youth Opportunity

Opportunity shouldn't be seasonal.

  • Launch a city-run Youth Works Program, paid internships, co-ops, apprenticeships
  • Strengthen Community Benefits Agreements on every major public project
  • Build green-jobs pipelines with colleges, trade schools, and unions
  • Require local hiring when public dollars are spent in Ward 13
05

Food Security for All

No child, senior, or family should go hungry in our city.

  • Back universal school meal programs for every child
  • Invest in community food hubs, good food markets, and culturally appropriate access
  • Expand community gardens, rooftop farms, and urban agriculture on public land
  • Treat food security as justice, not charity
06

Climate Justice & Green Communities

Climate action that protects the people already feeling it first.

  • Pass a maximum heat bylaw and provide free cooling for tenants and seniors
  • Grow the tree canopy in heat-vulnerable, high-density neighbourhoods
  • Retrofit buildings without using upgrades as an excuse for renovictions
  • Speed up flood protection and stormwater fixes in vulnerable communities
OUR COMMITMENT

That means affordable housing based on people's incomes, not market speculation. It means investing in local leadership, youth, seniors, newcomers, families, and community spaces. It means building a city where everyone belongs.

Walied will fight for a Toronto Centre where development serves people, public land serves the public good, and every neighbourhood receives the investment it deserves.

JOIN THE CAMPAIGN

A plan only works if neighbours fight for it.

Volunteer with us, host a coffee, or chip in what you can. Every door knocked moves Ward 13 closer to a council that delivers.

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