Toronto ACORN members have fought a multi-year campaign to improve rental apartment standards for tenants.
Posted June 28, 2022
A new report says rental prices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in May saw the highest monthly jump since 2019, though they have yet to reach pre-pandemic rates.
Posted June 18, 2022
Rent prices across Canada are soaring to levels not seen in more than three years amid rising inflation, forcing some to consider accepting illegal requests from landlords.
Posted June 13, 2022
On June 9th, Toronto ACORN tenants and members took to the streets to say “enough is enough!”
Posted June 1, 2022
Low-income tenants across Toronto could soon see rent assistance from the city permanently become a grant program rather than its earlier iteration, which issued loans.
Posted May 31, 2022
Posted May 27, 2022
In Toronto, calls are growing for provincial parties to better protect renters and the neighbourhoods they call home.
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Posted May 24, 2022
“Being a tenant right now we feel like we’re abandoned,” Alejandra Ruiz Vargas, the chair of the East York chapter of Acorn, told CityNews in an interview on Tuesday.
“We have not been fair with renters … Renters are the ones who sell you coffee in the morning, renters are the ones who clean the city, renters are the frontline workers.”
Posted May 16, 2022
New York City’s deadliest fire in more than three decades ripped through the Twin Parks apartment building in the Bronx earlier this year, killing 17 people including nine children. An unattended space heater caused the fire, officials said.
Posted May 13, 2022
When the RentSafe program was first implemented, residents of 160 - 200 Chalkfarm Dr did not anticipate the struggle they were to face in the coming years.
Posted May 3, 2022
After a bruising start to the COVID-19 pandemic, CAPREIT bounced back in 2021. The real estate company grew its revenue by 5.7 per cent, to $993.1 million, and extracted an average of $1,149 in rental income from tenants in each of its roughly 70,000 apartment units.
By July, its stock price was back to where it was before the pandemic began.