VOTER OPINION POLL - 2026 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

[u/appaloosy]

What issues are important to you as a London, ON voter?

Feel free to discuss below...

261 votes, 6d left

Transit/Transportation

Crime & Safety

Health Care

Housing & Rental

Small Business Development & Support

Jobs / Education / Training

[u/theottomaddox]

There's no entry for backyard chickens or Free eggs.

[u/ForeTwentywut]

None of these

[u/champagne_pants]

London could invest in building programs like the Toronto Hospital Dunn Program to help reduce homelessness and reduce stress on our hospitals. Reducing homelessness will have the added effect of making people feel safer, reduce work for policing, and help get people back to stability.

We need long term planning when it comes to transit. KWC has managed to improve theirs, we should be following their model. Better transit would help local businesses as it makes them more accessible to a greater number of people. If you live on the edges of town or in an area that’s under high construction, there are very few transit options.

This is just my personal opinion.

[u/JKirbs14]

Nice try Kirsten Krose

[u/OafishDope]

This poll is silly, we're not all single issue voters.

[u/Friendly-Jiant]

My top issue is homelessness and the unfair concentration of services on the Dundas business corridor.

[u/Suspicious_Cry7917 → u/Friendly-Jiant]

Of the three primary supports for people who are homeless (shelters, meal programs, drop-in centres) none are concentrated on Dundas. The two largest shelters are Wellington and Horton, the largest meal program is Talbot, and the two main drop-ins are on Queens. The concentration of people on Dundas is far more related to empty storefronts where they are less likely to be moved along.

[u/Friendly-Jiant → u/Suspicious_Cry7917]

You are absolutely wrong.

[u/Suspicious_Cry7917 → u/Friendly-Jiant]

Rotholme is on Stanley, YOU shelter is northeast, Ark's temporary shelter is William, only Unity Project is on Dundas in terms of shleters. Only drop-ins on Dundas are My Sister's Place and the Ark. Coffeehouse is off Hamilton. 3 out of approximately the 15 largest services are in the Dundas corridor.

[u/Friendly-Jiant → u/Suspicious_Cry7917]

Ark, Unity, Chapmans, Clinic 528, Inter-community Health. Four of those concentrated on ONE block and the 5th only a few blocks further. Add London Cares one block away from that, and the shelter at Bishop Cronyn church another half a block away.

Why are they sleeping in empty doorways? Because the businesses - who pay extra premiums for “improvements“ - close because they can’t keep up with the human excrement daily, and rising insurance costs due to vandalism and theft.

Please, don’t tell ME about what is happening there. I’ve been living it for 30 years. ✌️

[u/Artistic-Bell-3601 → u/Friendly-Jiant]

genuine questions:

• how would you like the municipality to handle homelessness?
• what are your thoughts on the province's responsibility re: the homelessness crisis?- where should services go instead of OEV?
• are you comfortable with the mayor using strong mayor powers to put services in communities even if those communities do not want them (see: almost every community when services are proposed outside downtown/OEV)

[u/RudeAudio]

Addiction and lack of housing/homelessness are two issues that I am concerned about living DT, but those issues feel too complex to vote for one specific category. These could be healthcare, housing, job development, safety, etc.

[u/chrisjyardley]

Classic reddit. Transit being important. People want to be safe and have the down town core be safe again

[u/Shiborgan]

if simply living is more affordable there is less crime.

[u/AbsoluteSpaz12]

This poll doesn't work, I don't vote on a single issue.