Craig Ruttan

Housing, City-Building, Politics. 2020 DiverseCity Fellow. From PDC to YYZ. 🏳️‍🌈🚴‍♀️👬🕺🐈 Tweets my own (he/him)

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

New idea for 24 Sussex: tear it down, replace it with a triplex. Units for the PM, leader of the opposition, Governor General. Heck, toss in a garden suite for the leader of the third party. Model the #MissingMiddle at the highest level.

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

@BootsRiley @walem2k Really enjoyed the zaniness and fun of the film though!

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

@BootsRiley @walem2k Audio was also strange at our screening, specifically the first half

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

@Beth_Levy66 https://t.co/uJ40LPleU1

[Ben Smith @atBenSmith]

Quite a spin - but not rooted in reality.

Brad supported the original motion to let police seize e-bikes. A common-sense step to actually address the problem.

What he voted against was the watered-down amendment asking for yet another report, one that hasn’t even come back yet.

But that’s the pattern with this Mayor. Ask for reports instead of dealing with the problem at hand.

Facts matter. It’s important that Torontonians are told the full story.

[NEWSTALK 1010 @NEWSTALK1010]

"It raises questions about magic math here? How do you do that? The reality is Torontonians have suffered through nearly a 25% tax increase this term of council." Mayoral candidate @BradMBradford tells @JohnTory he has concerns about the small tax increase in the 2026 city budget

[CP24 @CP24]

#NEW: Bradford pushes ‘common-sense fix’ to ease Toronto’s downtown gridlock
https://t.co/lxJDaLCOX8

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

👇⭐️👇

[Stephanie Smyth @stephaniesmyth]

#Breaking
My whole career I worked to hold those in power to account. Now I’m stepping up to serve. Thrilled to announce I’m running to be your next MPP in #TOStPauls. With @BonnieCrombie and @OntLiberal team, I want to deliver more family doctors & a government you can trust.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Earlier this year I penned an article arguing @MayorOliviaChow must become a Housing Champion.

Examples like this show us how much we need leadership to step up and change the bureaucratic culture on housing at city hall.

https://t.co/Pwyi4Ku0Wz

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

@kassbrownridge Congratulations Kass!!!

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Brad is making excellent suggestions here to get shovels in the ground on Toronto’s purpose-built pipeline.

There is a lot the city can do, as he points out, without having to demand significant funding from other levels of government which may not come.

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

Local planner @PlannerSean recently shed light on an important issue: the misclassification of semi-detached fourplexes as apartment buildings.

This highlights the challenges for people trying to build housing and facing complicated and seemingly inconsistent interpretations of zoning by-laws. As Sean said, “It shouldn’t be that hard”.

https://t.co/9QYHtTI8cS

[Jacob Loo Dawang 🔰 @jacoobaloo]

Perks and @MayorOliviaChow: the feds need to give us billions for affordable housing.

Also Perks and Chow: let's jeopardize $471M in federal funding because staff are behind on their commitments.

Also Perks and Chow: staff have time to write a report on banning garden suites.

[Cara Stern @carastern]

Who cares? It's homes for people. If homeowners want to build more homes on lots that they own, why should people across the street that don't own it get a say?

[Cara Stern @carastern]

I get that @PaulaFletcherTO thinks only the community should have a say, but giving current homeowners free reign to dictate housing policy is a big part of why we have a housing crisis.

Stop enabling it, and fight for the future constituents who would like to live there too.

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

"If we were to create a blackout zone for this specific street [on Garden Suite permissions], would you say that expands options or that removes housing options?" Councillor Bradford asks planning staff.

"I would generally not recommend that that's a good approach," says staffer

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

Sadly, when given the choice, Council voted in favour of *removing* housing options in neighbourhoods.

😳

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

Bradford's motion to not proceed with a review of zoning for garden suites on Craven Road FAILS 3-16.

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

"Councillor Perks is beating his chest on all the progress we've made on the Housing Action Plan, but he did not highlight all of the items that have been delayed," says a fired-up Bradford. He says there's lots of work for planning staff to do, and Fletcher's motion distracts.

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

Councillor Brad Bradford moves to NOT proceed with any kind of review of garden suite zoning permissions on Craven Road. He says this would just be a return to "exclusionary zoning" and that Fletcher is "bending the knee to some NIMBY voices."

[Craig Ruttan @crut]

@AndrewJDodds @GraphicMatt But can you imagine having homes on BOTH sides of a street?!? Heaven forbid!

[Jacob Loo Dawang 🔰 @jacoobaloo]

Folks, this is what we call a smackdown.

Honestly think that Toronto would have been better off housing-wise with John Tory and Bradford as chair of planning and housing.

[Scott Aitchison @ScottAAitchison]

Justin Trudeau gave Toronto $471 million dollars.

Then the city raised development charges 42%.

Mayor Chow’s hand picked chair of planning doesn’t seem to think that’s a problem.

When I was Mayor I fired gatekeepers like this.