Candidate for Councillor in Ward 11 University-Rosedale, with a housing and climate background described on her own website.
Diana Yoon is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 11 University-Rosedale, with a nomination filed on May 20, 2026 and the campaign website VoteYoon.ca. Her website and The Local describe her as an affordable housing and climate advocate. The Local reports that she ran for the NDP in Spadina-Fort York in the 2019 federal election and finished second.
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Diana Yoon appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 11 University-Rosedale. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 20, 2026 and the campaign website VoteYoon.ca.
Her About page, the campaign’s own statement, calls her an affordable housing expert, climate activist and community leader. It says that from 2017 to 2020 she worked at The Atmospheric Fund and managed a climate grants program of $1.6 million, that she worked at the national co-op housing federation, that she is a board director of the Circle Community LandTrust and a former board member of the Cecil Community Centre, and that she co-founded Climate Justice Toronto. It also says she advocated for the federal $1.5 billion Co-op Housing Development Program. voche.me did not check these roles or that claim with the organizations or with federal records.
The Local’s Ward 11 tracker, updated as of September 21, 2026, gives a similar account in its own words: a founding member of Climate Justice Toronto, past policy and government relations work at the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, an organizer with Friends of Chinatown TO and a board director of the Circle Community LandTrust. The Local also says she ran unsuccessfully in Spadina-Fort York for the NDP in the 2019 federal election, placing second behind the Liberal candidate. voche.me did not check that result against Elections Canada.
CBC News reported on August 17, 2026 that after Mike Layton filed his nomination for the ward, Diana Yoon said his bid was unexpected. CBC quotes her: “I believed that I had Mike Layton’s support and the news is unexpected, but we respect each other,” and “our campaign is still here to win this election.”
Her website sets out four platform pillars: build more affordable housing, enforce and expand renter protections, end chronic homelessness, and create better community spaces. The pages name specific proposals, including doubling the funding for the City’s Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program, doubling the number of RentSafeTO bylaw officers, building 1,500 supportive and affordable homes in four years and starting a Ward 11 participatory budgeting pilot of up to $1 million. These are the campaign’s statements.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
Her housing page says she would create new co-op housing and invest in community land trusts, double the funding for the Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program, and make City land available for rent-geared-to-income homes.
It also lists design standards for new rental buildings and more family-sized units. This is the campaign’s own statement.
Her renters page says she would take remedial action against negligent landlords in more than 10 buildings in the ward, double RentSafeTO bylaw officers and extend the program to more buildings.
This is the campaign’s own statement.
Her homelessness page says she would build 1,500 supportive and affordable homes in four years, expand crisis support and outreach, and commit $200 million to the Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program.
This is the campaign’s own statement.
Her community page says she would invest in public washrooms and the Bickford Centre, protect bike lanes, start a participatory budgeting pilot of up to $1 million, and bring in daily TTC fare capping and longer subway hours.
This is the campaign’s own statement.
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, its Members of Council page and the Ward 11 councillor’s profile, six pages of her campaign website (home, About Diana and the four platform pages), CBC News on Mike Layton’s nomination, The Local’s Ward 11 tracker and The Green Line’s Ward 11 guide. No public office is on record in her profile. Every statement taken from her campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account. The sitting Ward 11 councillor on the City’s Members of Council page is Dianne Saxe. The City’s candidate data records her as withdrawn from Ward 11 on August 21, 2026, and The Local and The Green Line report that she is running in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth instead, so she is not on the Ward 11 ballot. The nine candidates for Ward 11 on the City’s list are Alice Li, Diana Yoon, Gian Pileri, Huy Lieu, Karina Lemke, Keenan Courtis, Mike Layton, Paul Viret and Terri Hawkes.
Gaps. A Diana Yoon appears in the City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results for Ward 11. No source opened ties that entry to this candidate, so voche.me leaves it out and gives no 2022 result. Her website roles, the federal funding claim and the 2019 federal result were not checked with the organizations or Elections Canada. Her social media accounts and her Events and Pedestrianize Markham Street pages were not opened. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Her website says she managed a climate grants program of $1.6 million at The Atmospheric Fund. voche.me did not check this with the organization.
Diana Yoon · About DianaHer website and The Local both say she is a board director of the Circle Community LandTrust, a non-profit housing provider. voche.me did not check this with the organization.
Diana Yoon · About DianaThe Local says she ran unsuccessfully in Spadina-Fort York for the NDP and placed second behind the Liberal candidate. voche.me did not check the result against Elections Canada.
The Local · Ward 11 University-Rosedale candidate tracker, updated September 21, 2026Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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