{"id":96,"date":"2026-10-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/13\/toronto-voters-favour-lower-property-tax-increases\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:00:00","slug":"toronto-voters-favour-lower-property-tax-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/13\/toronto-voters-favour-lower-property-tax-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Voters Favour Lower Property Tax Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sharon-51\/torontonians-property-taxes-remotion-videos-e67b\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Toronto, 54% of respondents favored keeping the next property tax increase below inflation or avoiding an increase entirely, showing broad support for tighter budgeting.<br \/>\nIn the mayoral race, the incumbent signaled future tax increases near inflation, while a challenger pledged a first-yr freeze and openness to below-inflation later.<br \/>\nThe same Toronto poll found the incumbent mayor led decided and leaning voters 50% to 39%, while a third candidate held 10% support.<br \/>\nWhen asked what could justify higher taxes, Toronto residents pointed first to affordable housing and homelessness, followed closely by transit and emergency services.<br \/>\nTransit remained a practical issue: 29% said they use public transit less, and riders most often wanted more reliable service or better safety.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Toronto, 54% of respondents favored keeping the next property tax increase below inflation or avoiding an increase entirely, showing broad support for tighter budgeting. In the mayoral race, the incumbent signaled future tax increases near inflation, while a challenger pledged a first-yr freeze and openness to below-inflation later. The same Toronto poll found the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}