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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City of Toronto staff are recommending a licensing or registration program that would see landlords who don’t keep up repairs on their buildings fined. Council should approve this plan.
It may seem ironic that a group of East End apartment tenants gathered to protest poor heating in their building on October 18 – a day that was arguably the warmest of the fall. But standing in the tension-filled lobby of 75 Eastdale Avenue that day, it was clear that complaints of poor heating were only the tip of the iceberg.
Most tenants live in conditions against property standards bylaw
Cockroaches, bedbugs, poor ventilation, faulty elevators and lack of heat top list of problems in Toronto apartments.
CBC coverage of the Toronto ACORN fight for landlord licensing
A new report from ACORN Toronto finds more than 85 per cent of people who rent have seen a cockroach in their apartment.
An organization representing low- and middle-income tenants in Toronto is urging the city to beef up its licensing and enforcement efforts concerning large apartment buildings, arguing that some landlords don’t do enough to maintain their properties.
Group wants Toronto landlords to be licensed
Toronto ACORN releases their survey of housing issues in Toronto
Cockroaches, bedbugs, poor ventilation, faulty elevators and lack of heat top list of problems in Toronto apartments.