Homes
Build substantially more housing on major sites, add gentle growth where it fits, preserve good housing and connect more communities to Toronto.
Measure: more keys in doors.Explore Homes →Toronto Leads Again · Jamie Atkinson for Mayor of Toronto · 2026
Yet again, the world is looking to Toronto to lead.
We must lead by example.
Make Toronto easier to afford, easier to move through, safer to live in and easier to trust.
Homes. Time Back. Safety. Clean Streets. Jobs. Trust.
Why I’m Running
Toronto is one of the world’s great cities. But too many people feel stuck.
Housing costs are rising. Commutes are growing longer. Too many basics feel harder than they should. Trust in government is falling.
I am running because I believe Toronto can lead again—not through bigger promises, but through better delivery.
Cities succeed when they improve everyday life.
Homes · More Housing. Same Toronto.
Grow without erasing the neighbourhoods people already love.
Toronto needs substantially more housing. We can build it while protecting successful streets, parks, trees, local businesses and useful existing homes.
BUILD MORE.DESTROY LESS.CONNECT MORE.
Start with the big opportunities: major avenues, station areas, underused commercial land, surface parking, public land and other sites where infrastructure can support substantial growth.
The Connected Housing Network
Toronto's housing geography is bigger than Toronto.
The campaign framework identifies nearly 700,000 homes represented by official housing targets across the connected Ontario network, including more than 400,000 targeted outside Toronto.
These are targets—not vacant homes and not guaranteed completions.
The strategy is simple: build substantially more housing in Toronto and connect substantially more housing outside Toronto.
A Toronto job should not require a Toronto-priced home.
Quebec City–Windsor Corridor
Measure distance in minutes, not kilometres.
Corridor Québec–Windsor
One east–west vision, shown as two readable maps: Windsor to Toronto and Toronto to Québec City.
Status matters: Alto is the existing federal high-speed project forming the eastern foundation. The Toronto-to-Windsor western high-speed extension is a campaign proposal for study and partnership.
More communities within reach.More housing within reach.More jobs within reach.More family within reach.
TORONTO → LONDONABOUT 55 MINUTES
Connect cities that already exist. Workers gain access to more jobs. Employers gain access to more workers. Families gain access to more housing choices.
GigaCity · Connect Toronto North
Better connections between communities that already function together.
Toronto's economy does not stop at Steeles Avenue. Neither do families, jobs, housing markets or transportation.
Coordinate Toronto more effectively with Vaughan · Markham · Richmond Hill · Aurora · Newmarket.
The goal is not to erase municipal identities. The goal is to make the boundaries matter less to everyday mobility.
Don't make Toronto bigger on a map. Make the region feel closer.
Toronto That Works
Six promises people can measure.
The plan is organized around outcomes residents should be able to see and feel—not a library of disconnected policy announcements.
Time Back
Coordinate construction, improve transit reliability, manage roads better and make services easier to use.
Measure: shorter, more reliable journeys.Explore Time Back →Safety
Focus on prevention: flood protection, heat preparedness, emergency readiness and community well-being.
Measure: reduced risk and stronger neighbourhoods.Explore Safety →Clean Streets
Faster maintenance, graffiti response, reliable waste service and better public spaces.
Measure: visible improvements residents notice.Explore Clean Streets →Jobs
Skilled trades, youth employment, workforce development, entrepreneurship and civic innovation.
Measure: more people in meaningful careers.Explore Jobs →Trust
Public scorecards, performance reporting, service improvements and transparent decision-making.
Measure: government that works.Explore Trust →Business & Opportunity Growth
Build an AI-native Toronto that expands human opportunity.
Toronto should help people and businesses learn how to use, build and direct intelligent tools responsibly—not simply consume technology made somewhere else.
Give a person a fish and they eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and they eat for a lifetime. Teach a person to teach a robot to fish—while protecting the environment—and that person and their communities can eat for generations.
FROM TORONTO TO THE WORLD — AND BACK AGAIN.
Build a city worth following.
Toronto should not lead because we simply say we are a leader. We should lead because we solve problems.
Build more good homes.Give people time back.Make neighbourhoods safer.Keep streets cleaner.Maintain infrastructure before it fails.Create better opportunities.Make City Hall work better.
First, prove it here.
If modern construction can help build housing faster and more affordably, demonstrate it in Toronto. If robotics can make dangerous work safer, prove it here. If artificial intelligence can improve City services, measure the results here. If new technologies create new careers, make sure Torontonians have pathways into them.
Test it. Measure it. Improve it. Scale what works. Stop what does not.
When Toronto develops something genuinely valuable, Toronto companies can grow, Canadian innovation can reach larger markets, investment can come here, and lessons from the world can make Toronto better again.
BUILD IT HERE.PROVE IT HERE.GROW IT HERE.LEARN FROM THE WORLD.BRING THE BENEFITS HOME.
Prosperity People Can Feel
Economic growth matters when residents can actually feel the difference.
More opportunities to find good work. More ways to earn. More businesses starting and growing. More young people able to build careers here. More workers gaining valuable skills. More innovation becoming Toronto companies. More investment creating Toronto opportunities.
The question should not simply be: Is Toronto’s economy getting bigger?Are more Torontonians becoming more prosperous?
Proof of Delivery
Most campaigns tell people what they want to do. This campaign explains how.
Track housing from approval to occupancy. Coordinate capital work before streets are disrupted. Publish public scorecards. Require every major promise to carry a costing, funding path, operating plan and maintenance plan.
Housing PipelineCapital Coordination TableQuarterly ScorecardsFiscal Responsibility
Campaign Video
The case for Toronto Leads Again.
A short flagship video will bring together Toronto’s strengths, the challenges people feel every day, the practical plan and the optimistic future we can build.
Campaign video hubWatch on YouTubeThe Future of Work Is Changing
Toronto should make sure people can grow with it.
Artificial intelligence, robotics and automation will change many jobs. They will also create new ways to work.
Skilled tradesAIRoboticsAdvanced manufacturingDigital & virtual workRemote operationsConstruction technologyAutonomous systemsDesign & creative industriesMaintenanceEntrepreneurship
A tradesperson may work with robotics. A mechanic may maintain autonomous equipment. A construction worker may supervise automated machinery. A technician may manage intelligent buildings. A designer may work inside a digital twin before anything is physically built. Entirely new jobs will emerge that we cannot name today.
Technology should make people more capable—not less important.
Project Six
Learning by doing.
Project Six turns civic learning into something people can explore, understand and build skills from—using open data, youth engagement, resilience awareness and community projects.
PROJECT SIX can become one pathway from learning to earning—helping people explore AI, robotics, infrastructure, digital tools and problem-solving, build a portfolio of demonstrated skills, and connect those skills to training, apprenticeships, paid experience, careers and entrepreneurship.
Technology assists. People decide.
The public-facing experience stays separate from policing, emergency response and other professional operational systems.
25-Year Vision · Toronto 2051
Build the next 25 years without losing sight of today.
Toronto must solve today’s problems while preparing for future generations: housing abundance, climate resilience, economic competitiveness, infrastructure modernization and community prosperity.
This is not about futuristic promises. It is about long-term stewardship.
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