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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Jane and Finch ACORN members are emboldened by their recent victory in 100 York Gate Blvd, where the landlord Cherishome Living has bowed to intense community pressure to turn the heat back on after an ongoing lack of heat in the building.
Summary of the gains so far from Toronto ACORN's tenant rights campaign.
Toronto ACORN member Donna Borden on AMI radio to talk about predatory lending practices.
ACORN members in Toronto and Ottawa led actions last week to put pressure on the Ontario Liberal Government to pass Bill 39 to amend the Planning Act to allow Cities to mandate affordable types of housing be included in new condo developments.
Toronto is divided not only by income, but by access to formal banking - which impacts the financial and physical health of the city's poor.
Seven years after Toronto ACORN member Donna Borden borrowed $10,000 from CitiFinancial, she says she had made $25,000 in payments — and was still no further ahead.
A few dozen ACORN representatives from across Toronto descended on City Hall with a holiday present for new Mayor John Tory. And we hope it was a present he won't forget over the next four years.
Tenant advocacy group seeks action from city on poor housing conditions
On Saturday, Fifty ACORN members strong demanded major improvements at their North York apartment building, and it did not take long for problems to start getting dealt with.
Chinese news coverage of Don Mills tenants' action on Saturday