Healthy Homes - Habitation saine

Posted June 1, 2022

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 30, 2022

More than 50 Manor Village tenants and members of the ACORN Tenants Union marched the streets of Ottawa’s Centretown neighbourhood on May 18, calling for property owners to end eviction notices against Manor Village residents.

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 25, 2022

Inclusionary zoning, rent controls and a vacant home tax program were among the tools identified by McMaster students earlier this year in a quest for solutions to Hamilton’s housing crisis.

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 20, 2022

Les résidents de la communauté Manor Village — qui offre des logements à un prix abordable — croyaient avoir encore quelques années avant de perdre leur maison, en raison de l’étape 3 du train léger. Des rénovations entreprises par les entreprises propriétaires des immeubles sont toutefois venues chambouler ce calendrier.

Posted May 20, 2022

The community organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and residents of Manor Village will be holding a rally on Wednesday, May 18 to demand the company who owns the property withdraw eviction notices issued to remaining tenants.

Posted on May 19, 2022