THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF TORONTO'S NEW SIXPLEX LEGISLATION

• Property values will crater

• NO Tenant Caps = Sardine Housing

• Developers will gut communities.

• The Government...and therefore your tax dollars are footing the risk

• This will create a Domino effect across the country

City Councillors who voted in favour for Sixplex Legislation.

These are the councillors that voted to automatically allow multiplexes to be built in your neighbourhood without any public input or community consultation. Now they want sixplexes to also be automatically approved in your backyard. Let them know that this will be a major issue in the 2026 election and that it is not too late to go in a different direction!

Is this going to be good for you and for the value of your home? Is this democratic? The clear answer is NO. It will only worsen the growing problems with traffic, parking, community services and infrastructure.

See below the link to each of their offices – send them a message and let them know you are unhappy and want other options to be presented prior to the next election or else it will become a pivotal election issue.

Call or Email your Councillors TODAY.

Toronto City Hall is about to light a match under its residential neighbourhoods—and call it housing reform.

City council is moving to approve as-of-right zoning for fiveplexes and sixplexes in every low-rise neighbourhood across Toronto. That means developers can throw up multi-unit complexes on any single-family lot—no rezoning, no case-by-case evaluation, no community say. Just file your papers and build.

What is a sixplex? It's a detached house chopped into six individual units. Think of it like cramming six families into what was once one home—with no upper limit on how many people can live in each unit.

City planners call it “gentle density.” That’s a lie. This is an aggressive, top-down restructuring of your neighbourhood—pushed by developers and rubber-stamped by ideologues who haven’t protected a single thing worth preserving in this city for the past 20 years.

Let’s talk about what this really means.

1. Property values will crater.
   If your million-dollar bungalow now sits next to a three-storey sixplex swarming with tenants, good luck selling your house at full value. Buyers don’t want to pay premium prices to live next door to a revolving door of short-term renters, constant noise, parking chaos, and privacy loss—and while this description may be a generalization, it’s a fair one. This isn’t housing evolution—it’s economic sabotage for existing homeowners.

2. No tenant caps = sardine housing.
   Currently, there’s no restriction on how many people can live in each unit. That means you could have 30+ people packed into one sixplex. In this case, you’re not getting a duplex full of nice young families, you’re getting corporate rooming houses to maximize developer profits while minimizing the cost of living for renters.

3. Developers will gut communities.
   Once the market figures out how profitable this is—especially with as-of-right zoning—speculative developers will start making cash offers to homeowners, often below market, and then flood the area with sixplexes. One by one, residents will cave as their neighbourhoods deteriorate and their homes lose value. This is slow-motion expropriation by capital.

4. Government is footing the risk.
   Here’s the real kicker: the feds are subsidizing this madness. Through the Housing Accelerator Fund and CMHC, developers are being handed interest-free loans with just 5% down. That means a developer could put down $500,000 for a $10 million loan, pay themselves $1 million in “management fees,” and walk away if the project flops. No buyer? No problem. Just hand the keys to the bank and keep the cash. The taxpayer eats the loss.

That’s not housing—it’s white-collar looting.

5. A domino effect across the country.
   Federal dollars are now tied to how many new units a city can jam through zoning. So guess what happens next? Now that Toronto’s getting hundreds of millions, surrounding cities like Mississauga, Brampton, and Hamilton will copy-paste the policy. Urban sprawl meets vertical density meets total collapse of any planning integrity.

This isn’t a housing strategy. It’s a panic move.

The sixplex push is a desperate overcorrection after decades of failure. The same governments that refused to build proper transit, blocked market-driven supply, and taxed new development into the ground are now trying to retrofit the problem by gutting neighbourhoods and greenlighting chaos.

This is not how you solve a housing crisis. It’s how you destroy stable communities and rig the system for short-term developer profit while homeowners—who built equity, paid taxes, and raised families here—are left holding the bag.

Toronto is not a lab experiment. It’s a city. And city planning should be about balance, not bulldozers. If City Council passes this sixplex scheme next week (which they will), it will mark the beginning of the end for Toronto’s low-rise neighbourhoods as we know them. Not because change is bad, but because this kind of reckless, subsidized overbuild is worse.

Don't be fooled. This isn’t about “housing equity.” It’s about power, money, and forcing you out.