Housing Minister Sean Fraser has laid out the list of demands the City of Toronto must meet in order to access the federal government's multibillion-dollar Housing Accelerator Fund.
And Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she's confident that council will take action to act on Fraser's demands.
In a letter sent to Chow last week, Fraser said Toronto must increase minimum permissible density and height for residential buildings within walking distance to transit, streamline the process for issuing building permits, "significantly increase" the percentage of land in the city with four-storey as-of-right zoning and reduce restrictions on buildings owing to the shadows they cast, among other changes.