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 23, 2021
When Kiri Vadivelu's landlord tried to evict him after he lost his job at the start of the pandemic, the Scarborough resident fought to stay.
Posted June 22, 2021
Posted June 21, 2021
With Toronto city council set to vote on inclusionary zoning in September, housing advocates continue to push for change. David Zura with the common ground for advocates and builders, and where the two sides still differ.
Posted June 21, 2021
Toronto is not making the most of Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in the fight for affordable housing against overzealous real estate developers, according to ACORN.
Posted June 21, 2021
Great action outside of 11 Bergamot this week! Tenants came out to demand their landlord, Pinedale Properties, fix the badly needed repairs in their building.
Posted June 18, 2021
The heat hit Toronto early this spring, as temperatures climbed to record-breaking highs.
Posted June 15, 2021
ACORN members had a great rally outside of Toronto City Hall on June 14 to put pressure on the City to create a renoviction bylaw, similar to what BC ACORN won in New Westminster back in 2019.
Thirty members from across Toronto came out to join the rally and over fifteen deputed the same evening to the subcommittee on the protection of affordable rental housing.
Posted May 31, 2021
Posted May 28, 2021
Thousands of tenants in Toronto are behind on rent and at risk of eviction, which is why Toronto ACORN members have been fighting for rent relief for tenants, and targeting all levels of Government.
While Trudeau and Ford have done their best to ignore the problem, we managed to push John Tory and secured a victory for tenants in need of rent relief!
Posted May 27, 2021