{"id":12068,"date":"2023-05-17T18:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/?post_type=news&p=12068"},"modified":"2023-05-18T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:00:18","slug":"ontario-wide-phoneblitz-to-oppose-doug-fords-bill-97-other-regulations","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/news\/ontario-wide-phoneblitz-to-oppose-doug-fords-bill-97-other-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario-wide Phoneblitz to oppose Doug Ford’s Bill 97 & other regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\nToday, 40+ ACORN members from across Ontario came together for a virtual phone blitz in opposition to Doug Ford’s Bill 97 & other recent problematic regulatory changes.<\/p>\nACORN members’ biggest concerns about these changes are that:<\/p>\n1. Tweaking the renoviction processes will do little to stop renovictions – only real rent control will! \n2. Municipal rental protection laws will likely be replaced by weaker provincial law. \n3. Air-conditioning units in apartments will now enable landlords to increase rents. \n4. More adjudicators at the LTB will only speed up evictions \u2013 this doesn\u2019t help tenants. \n5. Building expensive low-density homes on protected farmland is bad for the environment and does nothing for affordability. \nFor more information on Ontario ACORN’s response to Bill 97 click <a href=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/news\/ontario-acorn-is-ontario-really-strengthening-protections-for-tenants\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\nAfter reviewing the problems with these provincial changes, the state of Ontario’s housing crisis and listening to moving testimony from an ACORN member experiencing demoviction, ACORN leaders went over how to submit comments to the Province and started making phone calls to Doug Ford, Housing Minister Steve Clark and PC MPPs sitting on the provincial committee that’s reviewing Bill 97.<\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12070\" src=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ACORN_PB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ACORN_PB.jpg 977w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ACORN_PB-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ACORN_PB-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12071\" src=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_7-1024x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_7-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_7-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_7-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_7.jpg 1237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\nACORN members were determined to make sure tenants’ voices were louder today than the landlord lobby’s!! They filled up nearly every office’s inbox with voicemails and were able to catch a few staffers on the phone to share our frustration and demands for real rent control.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12072\" src=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_6-1024x510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_6-1024x510.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_6-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_6-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pz_6.jpg 1461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\nPublic comments on the changes related to rental replacement bylaws and renovictions are closing May 21st!<\/strong><\/p>\nHere’s how you can make your voice heard:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add comments through the Government of Ontario website:\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariocanada.com\/registry\/view.do?postingId=44408&language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rental Replacement Bylaws<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariocanada.com\/registry\/view.do?postingId=44408&language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Renovictions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Send an email to residential.tenancies@ontario.ca<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/: https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/take_action\/send-a-message-to-ford-now-bill-97-isnt-the-solution-to-renovictions-rent-control-is\/\">Sign ACORN’s online action to email Ford, the Housing Minister and your MPP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nDon’t know what to say? Feel free to use our template <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1EZWGSyrJp48dr8B34PSdk20gTKkgJt3B\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\nBIG shoutout to the ACORN leaders who ran today’s phone blitz – Marcia Stone (Toronto), Amanda Teske (Ottawa), Megan Ruttan (Waterloo Region), Aiden Janey (Peel), Liz Scott (Hamilton) and Robin Slade (London).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12071,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","front_page_slider":[],"campaigns":[62],"featured_news":[70],"class_list":["post-12068","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","campaigns-housing-tenant-unions","featured_news-yes"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/12071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front_page_slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/front_page_slider?post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"campaigns","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns?post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"featured_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_news?post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}