Toronto Renters Forum

i am so sick of watching things get getting worse and worst everywhere, and the reason is always money!  How is it ok for us taxpeyers to pay $380 million for the upcoming soccer worldcup fiasco at the same time as the number of homeless people in parks has doubpled since a year ago?

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/no-surprise-outreach-organization-says-number-of-encampments-in-toronto-doubled-since-last-spring-1.6843770

The article says that the increase in homelessness was predictable.

Kozierok said the high cost of living along with inadequate social assistance is causing people to lose their home. She added that those who are struggling to make ends meet are finding themselves with no other option but to stay in an encampment as there aren’t shelter beds, a problem she said is exacerbated by the lack of a plan to support the influx of refugees in the GTA who are also seeking shelter.

“We’ve been predicting this for years,” Kozierok said.

And yet Doug Ford is willing to pay $650 million of taxpayer dollars to build a parking lot for his rich friend's new spa in Ontario Place!  https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/04/doug-ford-taxpayer-cost-ontario-place-spa/

Think of how many new affordable homes or homeless shelter spaces that money could fund.

These tenants are fighting their third above guideline in about three years!!  Now the tenants are fighting back!!

   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tenant-dream-building-weston-rent-strike-1.6861377

In solidarity!!

Greedy Akelius has served 77 Spencer Ave. an Above Guideline Rent Increase!

https://globalnews.ca/news/9438796/rent-increase-tenant-rights-canada/

https://twitter.com/ParkdaleOrg/status/1603790206230040578

Jojo here...   jus wanted to get the word out that thers some Akelius tenants meeting on facebook over here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/139585293238579/posts/557305924799845/?mibextid=HsNCOg

Come say hello!

From CTVNews a couple of days ago:  Tenants with large corporate landlords more likely to face poor living conditions, survey suggests

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/tenants-with-large-corporate-landlords-more-likely-to-face-poor-living-conditions-survey-suggests-1.5992030

This article is reporting on a new report released by our friends at ACORN, and here's a direct link to their report:
Impact of financialization of housing on tenants: Findings from ACORN Survey 2022 (PDF)

This thought-provoking article poses an interesting question, why don't tenants demand letters of reference from their landlords?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/here-s-why-more-tenants-should-request-reference-letters-from-landlords-1.5850299

“A good landlord has every reason to tell you [about] the previous tenants,” he said. "Landlords might want to have letters that attest to their fitness as landlords, and a good landlord would voluntarily want to do that.”

The CBC just published a great article discussing several facets of renting:

Why Canada is losing affordable rental housing faster than it's being built