Healthy Homes - Habitation saine

Posted December 5, 2019

This is a blog post written by Toronto ACORN member and East York ACORN Chair Alejandra Ruiz Vargas

Council has voted unanimously in favour of beefing up its RentSafeTO program in an effort to keep landlords more accountable for keeping buildings in good repair.

Landlords ignore the RentSafeTO program and changes won't work, tenant says

On November 26th & 27th over 20 ACORN members made it down to Toronto City Hall at 9 AM to witness, pressure and ensure that tenants' right to safe and healthy housing was enforced by our politicians. 

Landlords in Toronto will have to pay a fee to the city if they fail to provide for tenants if the buildings they live in are evacuated due to fire, flood or other service disruptions — part of a suite of changes adopted by city council on Wednesday strengthening tenant rights.

City currently uses complaint-based enforcement

Waterfront Toronto, Sidewalk’s government partner, agreed last month to let the urban-planning company keep developing plans for the neighbourhood on a smaller scale than it wanted.

Residents, many of them older, are fed up with cold apartments, water interruptions and pests as new owner offers cash buyouts to leave

There was a great turnout for Ottawa ACORN’s National Housing Day Action outside City Hall today!

CTV News coverage of the North York building fire