Healthy Homes - Habitation saine

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Every person deserves affordable, livable housing. In many low income neighbourhoods, tenants live with mold, pests, broken elevators, and other challenges because landlords will not do the repairs needed. ACORN Canada members fight for landlord licensing, building inspections, and stronger enforcement of maintenance rules and by-laws.

See our Healthy Homes demands here.

Ottawa Citizen: ACORN members protest infestations in subsidized housing

ACORN members protest infestations in subsidized housing at Ottawa City Hall

CTV News Ottawa: Protesting for Pest Control

Ottawa ACORN members protested at City Hall for pest control and property management.

CBC Ottawa: Tenants Rally for Property Management Bylaw

Tenants rally at Ottawa City Hall

Ottawa Matters: Housing advocacy group to bring 'paper pests' to City Hall for protest

Ottawa ACORN members will place one-hundred large prop cockroaches to demonstrate issues in affordable housing.

Ontario ACORN members protest VIRTUALLY to demand rent relief NOW!

50 ACORN members from across Ontario joined the virtual protest to demand rent relief for tenants during COVID.

Ottawa wins new rental housing management & pest control bylaw!

City staff today passed a new bylaw on rental housing property management and pest control.

News 1130: 'Tsunami of evictions' won't hit B.C. renters when moratorium lifts: Landlord BC

With a moratorium on renter evictions set to end next week, thousands of British Columbians could soon be forced into homelessness, according to a housing activist.

Hamilton Spectator: Housing activists call on city to create bylaw to stop evictions through renovation

“Tenants united will never be defeated.”

Global News: Tenant advocacy group calls on Hamilton council to implement bylaw to stop ‘renovictions’

A group fighting for the interests of local tenants says Hamilton city council needs to implement a landlord licensing bylaw that would aim to stop “renovictions”.

CBC Ottawa: City considers new rules to regulate rental properties, handle pests

Proposed Rental Housing Property Management bylaw would set new standards for maintaining rental units

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