Olivia Chow was re-elected as Toronto’s mayor, and to get you briefed, we broke down her top priorities for this next year

Mayor Olivia Chow won the mayoral election with 54.16% and will begin her second term on Nov. 15. Mayoral candidate Brad Bradford, formerly Ward 19 Beaches-East York’s councillor, came second with 41.11%. In third, Braeden Chow had 0.82%, Chris Alexander, who dropped out of the mayoral race on Oct. 6, was fourth with 0.36% and Edward Gong was fifth with 0.35%.

The Green Line compiled promises and priorities said during her campaign this election season; here’s what you can look forward to:

• Housing: She will continue building affordable, rent-controlled and non-market housing through City-led development by building another 10,000 rental homes through the city’s Rental Housing Supply Program and increasing funding for the Rent Bank, tenant-support programs and eviction prevention.
• TTC and transit: Chow will continue a TTC fare freeze into 2027 and introduce a 10-ride-a-week fare cap, start construction on the Scarborough East LRT, expand transit signal priority to reduce delays for buses and streetcars, add more traffic agents at busy intersections, and coordinate construction, utility work and events to avoid multiple disruptions.
• Jobs: She will create 15,000 new youth jobs through the Toronto Youth Employment Strategy, in partnership with the United Way. She wants to expand the youth safety network to young children through mentorship, recreation, and arts programming to create a youth development-to-employment pipeline and to continue funding youth employment and violence prevention. She will also create 37,000 new construction jobs when building new rental homes.

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