Affordable Liveable Housing

Nova Scotia ACORN Members Demand a Strengthening of Tenants’ Rights

An Open Letter to MLA Candidates

ACORN members and their allies are coming together to demand a strengthening of tenants’ rights in Nova Scotia. We have identified three key changes that the next government can enact immediately:

· Bring back rent control to Nova Scotia by re-implementing the Rent Review Act.

· Revising the Residential Tenancy Act to allow to tenants’ to file a collective complaint against their landlord.

Metro News: Vancouver seeks legal action against problem landlord

An East Hastings landlord is in hot water after letting tenants move in despite numerous safety violations and without the city’s approval.

The owners of 3683 East Hastings St. have been renting 60 apartments in the four-storey building since January 2013 even though it never passed safety inspections after it was extensively damaged by a fire in 2002, according to a report by Carli Edwards, the city’s deputy chief building official.

Halifax Media Co-Op: Tenants' rights group calls for rent control

The Nova Scotia chapter of ACORN, a national organization of low and moderate-income families, is asking for the reinstatement of rent control in Nova Scotia.

At a town hall held at the Halifax North Memorial Public Library on Thursday, organizers asked tenants to make it an election issue.

News 91.9: Group wants rent control to become election issue

GUEST: ACORN Nova Scotia co-founder Evan Coole

Metro News Halifax: Tenants group calls for return to rent control, wants it to become election issue

A national advocacy group for low- and middle-income families is urging tenants in Nova Scotia to make the reinstatement of rent control an election issue.

Law Now: Volunteerism Fuels Class Action at the Landlord Tenant Board

Ottawa ACORN partners with George Brown law school to help low-income tenants take corporate landlords to court.

The Province: Vancouver poised to take building owners to court

Apartment complex needs repairs; city official calls situation ‘pretty unique’

Global BC: Tenants rally at problem building

Residents of a 60-unit East Vancouver rental complex are protesting the condition of their “newly renovated” building.

24hrs Vancouver: City of Vancouver to take action on illegal apartment

The City of Vancouver will be taking an apartment owner to court after discovering suites in the building have been occupied for months despite not having an occupancy permit or business licence.

The Province: Fed-up tenants plan rally to air complaints

Tenants of an East Vancouver building are so unhappy with conditions in their rental complex they are staging a rally Monday outside the apartment. The B.C. Acorn Tenant Union is behind the rally, which will be held at 12:15 p.m. at 3683 East Hastings Street near Boundary Road.

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