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Common Tenant Problems => Rent => Topic started by: KatieS on March 22, 2022, 04:34:29 pm

Title: Toronto Star: Toronto tenants are caught in the rent trap
Post by: KatieS on March 22, 2022, 04:34:29 pm

I saw this article on the Toronto Star website, and I think that it makes several important points...  lots of us are stuck in apartments that are not ill-suited to us, but we can't move because renting another place at "market rents" is extremely expensive!

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/03/04/a-tower-divided-soaring-toronto-rents-have-led-longtime-tenants-of-this-weston-building-to-hold-onto-too-small-homes-while-new-neighbours-barely-scrape-by.html (https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/03/04/a-tower-divided-soaring-toronto-rents-have-led-longtime-tenants-of-this-weston-building-to-hold-onto-too-small-homes-while-new-neighbours-barely-scrape-by.html)

Katie

Title: Re: Toronto Star: Toronto tenants are caught in the rent trap
Post by: Creepella on May 05, 2022, 04:51:43 pm

FYI here is a non paywalled version of the article: https://archive.ph/ERurE