Building more homes in Mississauga.
For too long, Mississauga has treated the housing crisis as someone else’s problem. Meanwhile, our residents are being priced out, young people are struggling to stay in the city they grew up in, and renters are left vulnerable by an outdated system.
Mississauga needs more homes - but we also need to build the right homes, faster.
As Mayor, Alvin will make Mississauga the most attractive city in the GTA for housing investment. This plan is grounded in practical, creative, and immediate solutions to get bureaucracy out of the way to expand choice and make it possible for families to find homes in Mississauga.
Solving Mississauga’s unique housing crisis requires creativity and urgency. The inaction on housing has already had a generational impact. Alvin’s plan will take on this challenge immediately, so that young people and working aged adults are no longer forced to leave Mississauga to find homes.
Mississauga Needs More Homes People Can Afford
Alvin’s goal is to create a system where first-time home buyers can get on the property ladder, and give all residents choice in the housing market.
We cannot solve this by simply building more towers. We need more choices for families, seniors, young people and renters — from townhomes and multiplexes, to purpose-built rentals and affordable housing.
Alvin has a plan to get Mississauga building again.
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Mississauga Housing Corporation
Alvin will get Mississauga into the business of building housing by identifying underused municipal and private properties that could support new housing and bring builders, non-profits and landowners together to get projects moving. This way the city can ensure that affordable housing is a requirement of these new builds. The MHC will proactively identify these opportunities and partner with private builders and non-profit housing providers to turn them into homes.
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Build More Family Homes in Our Neighbourhoods
Alvin will make it easier to build the missing middle housing that families are looking for in neighbourhoods that already have roads, schools and services.
Mississauga should be the GTA leader in family-oriented missing-middle housing. Alvin will set a goal of tripling the supply of these homes by 2037 and remove unnecessary zoning barriers that make them harder to build.
Alvin will expand the City's Gentle Density Housing Incentive Program to include sixplexes, and upzone all main roads to allow 6 storeys as-of-right for mixed use and residential.
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Make Mississauga the Easiest Place to Build
Alvin will modernize the housing approval process so that we can attract more housing investment. He will make housing approvals one of the fastest in the GTA by giving planning staff the resources, expertise and technology they need to move good projects forward.
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Make Rental Housing Safer
Mississauga needs a modern rental enforcement system that protects tenants and neighbours while allowing responsible landlords to provide more housing.
Alvin will replace Mississauga's current lodging-house licensing system with a Safe Occupancy Certificate based on actual safety standards, and create a publicly searchable Safe Occupancy Registry showing whether a property is licensed.
This will close a legal gap that leaves renters vulnerable to losing their homes for reporting unsafe or abusive living conditions.
We Can’t Afford More of the Same Inaction on Housing
Cutting DCs and approving some new developments is not enough. Ending our housing crisis requires immediate action that can take effect for this generation, before it’s too late.
As Mayor, Alvin will confront this problem with urgency so that we can build more homes, give families more choices, speed up approvals and make better use of the land we already have.
Mississauga needs a Mayor who can solve modern problems with modern solutions. Alvin will focus on ending Mississauga’s housing crisis so that future generations do not inherit the consequences of today’s inaction.