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Scott Stinson: Olivia Chow's misguided plan to encourage seniors to stay put in the middle of a housing crisis

Giving Toronto's seniors free cleaning services and tax breaks means they are less likely to put their home in the market. And the market needs homes

Among the promises that Olivia Chow is making in her bid to be returned as mayor of Toronto is a commitment to make it easier for seniors to remain in their homes.

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Chow, the former federal NDP MP, says she would expand free housekeeping services for seniors, and increase mobile dental and primary-care clinics, ensuring that thousands of seniors, to use her numbers, would be able to avoid leaving homes that they have lived in for generations.

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She also made it easier for this cohort in her budgets as mayor, repeatedly raising the income threshold that allows residents to defer property-tax increases to, as she says, “help more seniors access relief and save their money.”

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