Hamilton Spectator: When there’s not much of a choice, Hamilton renters hold on to what they have
Posted May 12, 2022
Wilfred Corneau is bracing for a fight to keep his home of nearly 20 years in east Hamilton.
Posted May 12, 2022
Wilfred Corneau is bracing for a fight to keep his home of nearly 20 years in east Hamilton.
Posted May 11, 2022
Posted May 11, 2022
Dayna Sparkes lives in east Hamilton with her husband and four children. She works with Hamilton ACORN to advocate against poverty.
Posted May 10, 2022
Anti-poverty and net neutrality advocates are hopping mad this week as an explosive report from the Toronto Star circulates, suggesting that city officials may have been influenced by major telecoms to nix a plan that would have provided affordable, high-speed internet access to low-income residents.
Posted May 10, 2022
Posted May 9, 2022
Posted May 6, 2022
Posted May 5, 2022
A plan to create a "city-owned high-speed municipal broadband network" that would have made internet access affordable for low-income Torontonians won't be going to council next week after Mayor John Tory's executive committee voted it down on Wednesday.
Posted May 5, 2022
Tenants and tenant advocates with the New Brunswick Coalition for Tenants Rights and ACORN NB are dismayed by news of mass evictions issued May 1st, many of them evidently intended to skirt the province’s pending rent control legislation.
Posted May 4, 2022
It’s shocking. Two years into a pandemic that forced nearly everything online, most rural and First Nations households still don’t have access to the “basic” internet speed target set by the government. Where there is decent connectivity, many lack the skills they need to thrive online.
Posted May 4, 2022
According to The Star, the City of Toronto is abandoning plans for a municipal broadband service that would provide low-cost, high-speed internet to low-income residents.
Posted May 4, 2022
Des résidents du quartier Vanier à Ottawa, dont plusieurs personnes âgées et handicapées, sont à leur tour victimes de rénovictions.
Posted May 4, 2022
Vanier ACORN members from 644-650-656 rue de l'eglise kicked off their fight against their soon to be new building owner, Nick Legault of Building Investments Inc, after he issued N13 eviction notices to tenants to be out by July 31st.
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.
Posted May 2, 2022
Posted May 2, 2022
A national advocate for affordable housing is urging New Brunswickers to demand better protection for tenants who face "renovictions" and big rent increases they can't afford.
Posted April 30, 2022
Ontario ACORN members launched the election period last night! With nearly 200 ACORN members from all over Ontario joining ACORNs virtual Housing forum and Provincial Platform Launch on April 28th, 2022!
Posted April 25, 2022
Posted April 21, 2022
Posted April 18, 2022
The provincial body in charge of resolving disputes between landlords and tenants is still reeling from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted April 18, 2022
Residents at 1132 Upper Wellington St. say they have no plans to give up their affordable three-bedroom townhouse units, despite efforts from the property owner to end their tenancies.
Posted April 14, 2022
Anti-poverty advocates say Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates have been frozen for far too long.
Posted April 14, 2022
Posted April 13, 2022
No amount of rain can stop ACORN members from protesting to #RaiseTheRates and #StopTheClawbacks 🌧☔️🚩
The Ontario ACORN Day of Action had over 100 ACORN members rallying on a virtual zoom, and at ODSP offices in Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Toronto, Brampton and Sudbury!