Sorry Comrade You Are What You Are.....

....a con man and a slumlord. In both of your campaigns you promised to get things done based on your relationship with the leftists in Ottawa and Queen's Park and when they both told you to screw off you didn't have a Plan B. You seem to find funding for your pet projects, increasing the city payroll, councilor's salaries, councilor's office budgets, street festivals, etc. but can't find the money to renovate housing or it seems the Housing Authority is so overworked it can't clean up the garbage in the house in question.

City stiffed on housing: Miller

By BRYN WEESE AND SARAH GREEN, SUN MEDIA

The fact that the city is a slum lord is not news to Toronto's mayor.

David Miller said yesterday Toronto officials have been aware of the terrible condition of public housing in the city for "a decade," but it's not the city's fault.

"When these units were downloaded by the former (provincial) Conservative government, we were $300 million short in funding. That's been said again and again ... and this is the consequence," he said.

The Sun exposed a city-owned home in the Upper Beaches earlier this week that had been vacant for over a year and was littered with junk, mouldy food, garbage and a dead pigeon.

"When services are downloaded to municipalities without funding, this is the kind of thing we see," Miller said. "It's unacceptable."

Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC), the city agency that oversees the city's social housing stock, needs $350 million to make needed repairs to its homes and apartment units.

Last fall Councillor Case Ootes proposed selling some of the more valuable detached and semi-detached homes to generate revenue to pay for the repairs at other units.

Some of those homes, Ootes said, would be worth $800,000 to $900,000 each. TCHC is reviewing what to do with some of its properties.

Miller, however, rejected the idea off selling off stock yesterday.

"I don't think we want to sell off our low-income housing. That's not going to solve the problem," he said. "We don't sell it off, we rebuild and rejuvenate. It's a terrible problem, though, and it starts with a huge gap in funding."