It’s been five years since Heather Clark and her three children were able to move out of a shelter and into a rental apartment building on Markham Road in Scarborough, managed by Golden Equity properties. Since she moved in, she says the property management company has done nothing to maintain the unit.
Around 50 Londoners gathered outside a low-income housing building managed by London and Middlesex Community Housing on Tuesday afternoon, rallying against pest control and maintenance issues at the property.
Tenants living inside a London and Middlesex Community Housing (LMCH) building are calling out management for what they say are degrading conditions. “Pest control is a major issue here, as well as maintenance,” said Sharon Villeneuve, 85 Walnut ACORN tenant Union leader.
Fed up with a pest infestation they say has been ongoing for months, residents of an apartment building run by London’s social housing corporation took the drastic step of delivering several bags filled with dead cockroaches to the management office of their building at 85 Walnut St.
Residents of a building operated by London and Middlesex Community Housing (LMCH) rallied Tuesday to draw attention to what they say have been chronic issues of disrepair and pests at the aging property, located west of the city’s downtown.
Organizing works, and standing up for your rights is worth it, says Maribel Jagorin, the leader of a tenants’ group in Kitchener who won the right to stay in their homes Monday. On Monday, after two years of legal conflict, Landlord and Tenant Board adjudicator Patrick Shea found that the building owner’s application “has been abandoned,” and the tenants are free to remain in their rent-controlled homes.
