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Oct 17 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Hey Toronto 👋

Let’s start a city-owned housing company.

Instead of selling off land for cheap to developers, we can develop it ourselves & create rent stabilized apartments. 🥳

#LetsFixIt #topoli #ToRe

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2/ Under this mayor, Toronto literally sold public land for a toonie.

Building “affordable” housing is quite profitable if you’re paying less than the price of a soda for land.

Why isn’t the city running these rentals?

#topoli #toronto

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3/ Let’s build medium density, mixed use rental buildings.

We can use the revenues from the commercial component to subsidize low income units in the building.

The current system of housing financialization and monetary policy is breaking how cities work. #LetsFixIt
4/ The thing that drives me insane about municipal politicians, are they tell taxpayers that they’ll go to the Fed to get the money to pay for things.

Where. The. F&$k do you think the Fed gets their money?

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Stephen Punwasi 🪧🗳😻 | Toronto Mayoral Candidate Profile picture
Oct 14
Why are Toronto politics biased towards Boomer policies?

Respondents to the Toronto Star poll were 50% senior citizens. The story's journo didn't even ask for that info.

The "leading" candidates & most important issues were determined by seniors. Nice.

#topoli #TOVotes
2/ *over 50%.

Anyway, at Better Dwelling we ask our journos to keep files and data, so we can double-check for biased data input. That's basic data journalism.

The Toronto Star published a survey to narrow the leader of a $300b economy without asking how it was done. 🤷‍♂️🤣
3/ This is how we end up with insane election outcomes.

A bunch of people didn't show up in 2016 to vote for the Dems because they thought there was no chance Trump would win.

Vote every single time for whoever you want. It doesn't have to be me, but vote.
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Stephen Punwasi 🪧🗳😻 | Toronto Mayoral Candidate Profile picture
Oct 14
Let's skip over which politician in 🇨🇦 said it, but West Africans don't need to learn how to become ready to fight & die for democracy.

They've been fighting and dying for freedom since the 1400s when European slave traders arrived and looted the region.
I guess the complexity of the problem isn’t clear.

The West lent West Africa money for public-private partnership infrastructure.

As the West withdraws aid & rates rise, they risk defaulting & fully privatizing much of their infrastructure.

It’s colonialism 2.0 via banking.
3/ The director from the African development bank was saying it's getting hard not to accept aid that Russia is offering.

25 million people are starving in WA, literally selling the last of their possessions to survive. Their economy was obliterated during COVID.
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Stephen Punwasi 🪧🗳😻 | Toronto Mayoral Candidate Profile picture
Oct 13
Still laughing at a door I canvassed.

Me: Hi, I'm Stephen...

Son (30-ish): My dad sends me your articles. DAAAAD. Better Dwelling is here. He's running for mayor.

Me: Oh my name's Stephe...

Dad: Better Dwelling is running for Mayor? We have to help him! *grabs jacket* 1/2
Me: sorry sir. I didn't mean to disturb you, I'm just here to discuss your city concerns.

Him: My concern? They're all crooks! I'll get the whole neighborhood to vote for you! 😂

Loved that:
1) A senior was ready to run out the door & help

2) he calls me better dwelling 🤷‍♂️😂
Gonna hire Saul to be my comms manager if I ever run for office again. 😂

Dude's killing it with sign requests in one of the richest parts of town. Which says a lot about the current situation. Even people thriving in this environment think what's happening is not okay.
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Stephen Punwasi 🪧🗳😻 | Toronto Mayoral Candidate Profile picture
Oct 12
Economic disasters are emergencies & Toronto needs to treat it that way.

That was a central thought as we designed our anti-poverty platform.

We can’t solve poverty, but we’ll fight for you even harder than Tory fights for Rogers.

<thread>🧵👇 #topoli #LetsFixIt
2/ the human & economic toll of poverty in TO is unbelievable.

Some 🤯 data

… human:
- over 10k unhoused people
- adding 22/people per week
- avg deaths: 3.5/week (+40%)
- median age at death: 38

economic:
- $5.5 b annual cost
- $600m city has spent on homelessness & housing
3/ we’ll be short 1000s of shelter beds this winter. It will cost people their lives.

We need to act fast, so we’ll erect temporary crisis disaster tents where people can get a bed, shower, & warm meal.

This isn’t a permanent solution but we need to prevent people from dying.
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Stephen Punwasi 🪧🗳😻 | Toronto Mayoral Candidate Profile picture
Oct 9
Heck yeah, we do! 🥳

A city that loses its artists & creatives loses its soul. We can't let that happen.

Toronto produces some of the world's most talented people & we love to see it. However, they're leaving at an alarming rate. #LetsFixIt

<thread> 🧵👇 #topoli #art #music
2/ What do Larry David, Alicia Keys, Tennessee Williams, Christian Slater, & Angela Lansbury have in common?

They lived at Manhattan Plaza, a no frills, low-income apartment building that required 70% of tenants to be practicing artists. We're reviving this idea with a twist.
3/ The number one issue we heard from early and mid-stage artists is the city is too expensive and they don't have space to practice their craft.

Any artist will tell you that without practice, they can't get to the next stage of their career.
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Stephen Punwasi 🪧🗳😻 | Toronto Mayoral Candidate Profile picture
Oct 8
Thriving cities, their mayors, and their age:
- Boston, @wutrain, 36
- Miami, @FrancisSuarez, 45
- Dallas, @Johnson4Dallas, 46

The world is rapidly changing, and cities that don’t pass the torch to the next generation will fail to understand the needs of the next generation.
2/ some feedback I get from voters is they’ll vote for me, but they don’t think Toronto is ready for a mayor that’s “only” 40. I don’t think that’s the case.

Toronto’s young adults are fleeing in record volumes. It’s not a problem as simple as just more housing.
3/ btw most of my supporters are home owning Boomers, that have Millennial kids & see how hard their life is.

They often tell me they’re lucky enough to be able help, but hard working professionals shouldn’t need help from their parents. They also know it’s a privilege to help.
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