Promises / Ongoing
Partial / ongoingExternal factorsHousing
Advance affordable and rental housing, and address homelessness
Local projects are moving. Regional homelessness counts and the subsidized waitlist grew.
Ask the mayorAdvance affordable and rental housing, and address homelessness
Local projects are advancing: Blue Door, Inn From the Cold’s 44-bed hub, and Trinity Coptic at 17175 Yonge Street.
Taylor chairs Housing York and the Region’s Housing and Homelessness Committee.
Regionally, the Point-in-Time count rose 126% from 2018 to 2024, and the subsidized-housing waitlist grew 49% from 2022 to 2025.
A Newmarket-only homelessness figure is not published in these sources.
Numbers vs. statement
Homelessness
The statements match the data, and the measured problem has grown while he has chaired the Region’s housing committee. These sources do not publish a Newmarket-only count.