Sunday, May 13, 2018

Renovictions: Open Season On Tenants

There's a new term, Renovictions – it means landlords can push tenants out while it renovates their apartments, raise the rent, find folks prepared to pay it and not allow the previous tenants back. 

This is what happened at 795 College St. in Toronto when extensive renovations resulted in three bedroom apartments advertised for $4,000 a month. Though this is illegal that doesn't count for much when the interests of poor people are at stake. According to Aurora Browne, who lived there for ten years, ''I thought the whole point of the Landlord and Tenant Board was to protect people in these situations and I am aghast at how empty and flimsy that promise was. It seems as if the board has no spine and it’s open season on tenants.'' Ms Browne, let's make it open season on capitalism . . .

For socialism, 
Steve, Mehmet, John & all contributing members of the SPC.

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