Inside Toronto: ACORN Canada holds tenants rally, Dec. 30
Posted January 3, 2012
Tenants of an East York highrise say they will rally Friday afternoon, Dec. 30, in front of their building.
Toronto ACORN, an advocacy group, is calling on the City of Toronto to force the owner to do repairs at 500 Dawes Road.
A fire in an elevator Dec. 8 injured two men working in the building, and Janet Davis, the local city councillor, met tenants of the building on Dec. 20 to discuss its condition and their rights.
In a release, ACORN, which is planning the rally for 2:15 p.m., said the owner “has a history of not doing repairs and of treating people poorly” and the city isn’t responding to conditions in the building quickly enough.
An audit of the building completed Dec. 3 2008, found dozens of property standards defects but a city report this month found only five defects in the orders to the owner remain outstanding.
The owner, the report said, must still submit engineer’s reports on the exterior and interior lighting, take a condition survey on concrete balcony floor slabs and repair the balconies, which “are not maintained in good repair”
The report also said walls in the parking garage “are not maintained free of holes, breaks or cracks.”
Tenants of an East York highrise say they will rally Friday afternoon, Dec. 30, in front of their building.
Toronto ACORN, an advocacy group, is calling on the City of Toronto to force the owner to do repairs at 500 Dawes Road.
A fire in an elevator Dec. 8 injured two men working in the building, and Janet Davis, the local city councillor, met tenants of the building on Dec. 20 to discuss its condition and their rights.
In a release, ACORN, which is planning the rally for 2:15 p.m., said the owner “has a history of not doing repairs and of treating people poorly” and the city isn’t responding to conditions in the building quickly enough.
An audit of the building completed Dec. 3 2008, found dozens of property standards defects but a city report this month found only five defects in the orders to the owner remain outstanding.
The owner, the report said, must still submit engineer’s reports on the exterior and interior lighting, take a condition survey on concrete balcony floor slabs and repair the balconies, which “are not maintained in good repair”
The report also said walls in the parking garage “are not maintained free of holes, breaks or cracks.”