Working-class people building independent organizations for neighbourhood power in Parkdale.
Toronto, Ontario
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75 SPENCER RENT STRIKE VICTORY: RENT INCREASE CANCELLED
Our neighbours at 75 Spencer are celebrating a rent strike victory. Metcap has conceded to tenants’ demand and withdrawn the above guideline rent increase (AGI)
Our enemies will always try to divert us into bureaucratic dead-ends like the LTB because these institutions make exploiting us go as smoothly as possible. 75 Spencer tenants won their rent strike because they refused to be channeled into dead-ends
Metcap employees were rude and aggressive and insisted that the Landlord and Tenant Board—and not the landlord's office—was the correct venue for tenants to raise their concerns.
Parkdale Organize retweeted
Last month, 1154 Wilson tenants visited building owner Zachary Meyer at home. He refused to answer the door and shouted obscenities from inside the house. Yesterday, tenants returned, louder than before. Tenants will continue to fight until the above guideline increase is dropped
"A group of tenants drove to Montreal to confront their landlord in person...tenants received a call from Elkeslassy's lawyer on the way home, indicating a potential willingness to drop the above guideline increase application. Formal confirmation came on Wednesday."
BREAKING: A six-month rent strike has ended in victory for a group of Parkdale tenants. #topoli #housing #rentstrike
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Parkdale Organize retweeted
Tenants of 1154 Wilson Avenue are fighting an above guideline rent increase.
After getting notice of a proposed 5.1% rent increase for this year, tenants started organizing to fight back. The vast majority of tenants in the building—170 apartments—added their names…
'Sonam Tsering has lived in the building for 15 years. Getting the AGI withdrawn is “a great feeling,” Tsering said, and he encourages other renters in similar situations not to “go down” without a fight.'
Landlord MetCap had asked Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board to raise rates in the rent-controlled Toronto building 5.4 per cent above the provincial guideline. thestar.com/real-estate/park…
"Despite the ongoing rent strike, the building changed hands on May 4, selling for $15.5 million to a numbered company. The director of this company was listed as Rebecca Elkeslassy, a woman based in Côte-Saint-Luc."
Tenants of 75 Spencer Ave. have been on rent strike since March following a proposed 5.4 per cent above-guideline rent increase. thestar.com/news/gta/toronto…
"An ongoing rent strike at a mid-rise apartment building in Parkdale has taken an unexpected turn: in May, the longtime owners sold the property to a new owner for $15.5 million, raising fears among some tenants about what the future will hold."
The apartment building at 75 Spencer Avenue in Parkdale has been sold amid tenants’ ongoing rent strike.
On May 4, the building was purchased for $15.5 million by a federally registered numbered corporation controlled by an out-of-province owner based in Quebec
Read about the organizing led by 75 Spencer tenants who entered the 3rd month of their rent strike on May 1.
Fighting a rent increase calls for working-class people to communicate, make decisions, and take action together. This requires organizing, and organizing takes work
One 75 Spencer resident whose child attends school in Parkdale, Lobsang Nyima, said he has lived in the building for 15 years.
He is on rent strike and faces eviction for nonpayment of rent, but his reason for striking is “easy” — “We don’t have enough money to pay (the AGI).”
An organizer from the 75 Spencer rent strike, and a hotel worker in Toronto, discussed her struggles with her landlord with her co-workers.
Together here, they show their support for the demands of the 75 Spencer rent strike and their fight for their homes
