Toronto ACORN was founded in 2004, with the first organized group in Canada being formed in Weston / Mt Dennis after tenants took their slum-lord to task and won $250,000 in rent abatements. In the next ten years Toronto ACORN spread to every part of the city leading the fight and winning significant victories including raising the minimum wage; strengthening of the enforcement of apartment building standards; regulating the payday loan industry in Canada; and countless improvements in our neighbourhoods. In the next year we plan to fight for a new Residential Tenancy Act; to turn up the heat on predatory lenders that sell consolidation loans; to continue our fight to get the city of Toronto to license all landlords in the city; and to keep the pressure on to close the digital divide.
Toronto ACORN has local meetings in your neighbourhood and they are always open for new people to get involved. Join Toronto ACORN now!
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Posted June 28, 2022
A new report says rental prices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in May saw the highest monthly jump since 2019, though they have yet to reach pre-pandemic rates.
Posted June 18, 2022
Rent prices across Canada are soaring to levels not seen in more than three years amid rising inflation, forcing some to consider accepting illegal requests from landlords.
Posted June 13, 2022
On June 9th, Toronto ACORN tenants and members took to the streets to say “enough is enough!”
Posted June 7, 2022
Three Toronto anti-poverty and anti-violence advocates are calling on Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives' enlarged majority government to lift up vulnerable lives and increase safety in the city.
Posted June 1, 2022
The government has begun a drive to verify the payments it sent to almost nine million Canadians through the Canada Emergency Response Program (CERB) — and a big chunk of those recipients are being told they have to pay back some or all of the money they received.
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 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 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 24, 2022