Canada: Housing and identity: Questions about Mississauga's future as election looms
The city is experiencing a time of transition – its residents are set to elect just the third mayor in the municipality's history on Monday and in the process have to consider whether and how much they want the city's landscape to change.
It's a situation that has brought varying, and sometimes clashing, visions to the forefront while highlighting the challenges the city faces with housing.
Shauna Brail, the director at the Institute for Management and Innovation at the University of Toronto Mississauga, said longtime residents have witnessed Mississauga evolve from what was once a "bedroom community" to Toronto into the third largest city in Ontario, and seventh largest in Canada.
To present a clear path forward, whoever becomes the next mayor will have to find a way to connect with residents on what Mississauga should look like in the coming years – whether that's continuing with more of a suburban image or spurring densification and new affordable housing.
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