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Housing Affordability / CityTV News Reports on Rent Strike!!
« on: October 16, 2023, 11:37:11 am »

I Just saw this on City TV News:

Rent striking tenants raise concerns over developer chosen for waterfront project

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Tenants on rent strike are concerned with the company chosen to develop a 12-acre lot on the city’s waterfront. They believe that Dream Unlimited cannot be trusted to build affordable housing, saying that the company has a history of outrageous rent.


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General Discussion / Re: Rent Strike!!!!
« on: June 12, 2023, 11:38:08 pm »


Renters need a Tenant Revolution




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General Discussion / Rent Strike!!!!
« on: June 12, 2023, 11:34:42 pm »


It's on!!!!

Toronto Tenants Are Uniting in a Mass Rent Strike

In Solidarity against Greedy Landlords!!!



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Building more homes isn’t enough – we need new policies to drive down prices

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Since the housing market’s peak last February, home prices in Canada have fallen 23 per cent. But for the average Canadian household, rising interest rates have made housing affordability continue to worsen, nevertheless. The problem, of course, is gravely serious – it wastes our capital, discourages the young from starting families, and seeds resentment among those excluded from home ownership. As with other existential threats, such as climate change, Canadians must make the necessary sacrifices to meet the challenge.

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Between 2016 and 2021 the Greater Toronto Area’s supply of private dwellings outpaced population growth by more than 50 per cent. And yet the cost of housing continued its incredible climb, with the average house selling for 64 per cent more in the same period, compared with only 12-per-cent inflation.

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As the British thinker Sir Roger Scruton observed, conservatives must sometimes set their free-market instincts aside in pursuit of greater cultural goals. In fact, all of us, regardless of political inclinations, must remember that our land is a fundamental aspect of our national identity, and like human life, it cannot simply be subjected to the cold mechanics of an untethered supply and demand system.


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Didn't the registration period for Toronto's empty house tax end today?

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Housing Affordability / Article: How much rent can you afford?
« on: February 03, 2023, 10:56:07 am »


I noticed this article on CTN NEws website this morning

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/how-much-rent-can-you-afford-1.6258411

rents are outrageous!!

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Akelius / Akelius Leveraging Lack of Rent Control on New Buildings...
« on: December 14, 2022, 10:17:41 am »

Akelius is taking advantage of the loophole that Doug Ford created in our renter's rights, and will leverage their new ability to set arbitrarily high rents on new buildings to extract exorbitant rents from their tenants.

Here's what you need to know about how Doug Ford gutted rent control, and the effect it is having on renters:
The Ford government removed rent control on new units. A year later tenants are reporting double-digit increases

And here's the announcement about Akelius's new buildings that because of Doug Ford's loophole will have no rent control:
Two Infill Rental Buildings Proposed Near Lawrence and Don Mills

My heart goes out to the renters who are unaware of the new rent-hike loophole, and end up renting in these buildings...  they will be completely at the mercy of Akelius.  Once a year Akelius will be able to raise these renters' rents to any amount Akelius wants, and the only rebuttle available to these renters will be to move out.



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Other Tenant Problems / Re: New landlord demands
« on: October 17, 2022, 12:53:34 pm »
Don't give any more information than your name.

I don't think that there is any law or regulation saying what a new landlord can or cannot ask (beyond your human-rights), but there is also nothing I am aware of that would make you have to answer any questions you didn't want to.

I think that the landlord does have the right to know who they are renting to, thought.  But beyond that, you should consider ignoring the request.

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Other Tenant Problems / Re: Movie shooting in my building
« on: August 01, 2022, 07:53:54 am »
I suppose you could try filing a T2 Application at the landlord and tenant board.  A T2 is for when the landlord has:
▪ seriously interfered with the reasonable enjoyment of the rental unit or the complex by you or a member of your household,
▪ withheld or interfered with vital services, care services, or meals,
▪ harassed, interfered with, obstructed, coerced or threatened you.
But I don't think that these sorts of applications have much chance of winning.

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Akelius / Re: Garbage chutes shut down
« on: June 30, 2022, 10:05:10 am »

You can file a complaint with the city of toronto, for the fencing and safety issues.  Call 311 or e-mail 311@toronto.ca.

About the fact that older or physically disadvantaged people will have difficulty using the garbage, I think that the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal may be able to help.  https://tribunalsontario.ca/hrto/  I don't know how you file a complaint with them, but maybe you can find out how from the website.

Does your building have a tenant association?  You could send a letter to your landlord asking them to provide somebody to carry out the trash for people who can't use the temporary garbages.

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Maintenance / Re: Property Repairs
« on: April 01, 2022, 09:28:35 am »
I'd also recommend calling the FMTA tenant hotline and asking their experts for some advice.

They are at:  416-921-9494

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The rent freeze is over.

Lots of us received the N1 "Notice of Rent Increase" forms from our landlords back in September of 2021, so that they would come into effect on January 1st.  Happy New Year! :-(

The capitalist exploitation of what should be a basic human right continues.

Here are a couple of mentions of the end of the Rent Freeze from the local papers...


Ontario raises maximum allowable rent increase as rent freezes end

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/01/01/ontario-raises-maximum-allowable-rent-increase-as-rent-freezes-end.html


Rent can now be raised again in Ontario. Here's everything you need to know

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/rent-can-now-be-raised-again-in-ontario-here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-1.5728265



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Rent / Re: Rent Increase
« on: December 23, 2021, 08:33:43 am »
Unfortunately renters don't have much protection from their landlords if the their landlords choose to sell or evict them without cause.  The "Without Cause" refers to evictions where the landlord says that they are going to either renovate the unit ("renoviction"), or so that the landlord or a member of their family can move in.  In both cases, the tenant can't stay, but you might be able to squeeze a few months of rent out of your landlord (which won't help you find a new place with an affordable rent, as rents are up everywhere – you'll end up paying more per month for sure).

If you do receive an eviction notice for either of these purposes then you should definitely ask for advice, here or from the FMTA Tenant Hotline, and also probably from a lawyer.

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