{"id":11220,"date":"2022-11-21T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=11220"},"modified":"2022-11-28T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:23:13","slug":"toronto-tenant-action-against-medallion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/news\/toronto-tenant-action-against-medallion\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto tenant action against Medallion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7561-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7561-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7561-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7561-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7561-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7561.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday November 19th, Toronto Downtown ACORN tenants and allies held an action at the Medallion owned complex of 99 Howard Street, 670 Parliament Street, and 135 Rose Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The tenants are fed up with pests, outstanding repairs, flooding, lack of security, disrespect from management, rent increases and AGIs.<\/p>\n<p>We had a turnout of 30 tenants and allies. We had leaders who shared their testimonies, some words from MPP for the area Kristyn Wong-Tam, and a march into the building to deliver the demand letter to the rental office.<\/p>\n<p>CityTV Toronto and CBC Marketplace documented the action, interviewed tenants, and visited inside the homes of tenants.<\/p>\n<p>Members have demanded a meeting with Medallion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11222\" src=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7550-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7550-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7550-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7550-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7550.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11221\" src=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7547-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7547-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7547-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7547-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-7547.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11223,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","front_page_slider":[],"campaigns":[62],"featured_news":[],"class_list":["post-11220","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","campaigns-housing-tenant-unions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/11220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front_page_slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/front_page_slider?post=11220"},{"taxonomy":"campaigns","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns?post=11220"},{"taxonomy":"featured_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_news?post=11220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}