{"id":16604,"date":"2025-02-11T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/?post_type=video&#038;p=16604"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:52:50","slug":"renoviction-bylaw-is-needed-in-the-city-of-kitchener","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/video\/renoviction-bylaw-is-needed-in-the-city-of-kitchener\/","title":{"rendered":"Renoviction bylaw is NEEDED in the City of Kitchener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACORN Canada is deeply concerned about Kitchener City Council\u2019s decision to delay a renoviction bylaw report until June 2025, with implementation not expected before 2026. For tenants already facing eviction, this delay is not just bureaucratic\u2014it\u2019s life-altering. Residents like Zackery Smith and Breanna Elaine Hill have made it clear: they don\u2019t have time to wait. Families, seniors, and disabled tenants are at immediate risk of homelessness due to predatory renovictions, yet the city has chosen to prioritize procedural delays over urgent action.<\/p>\n<p>Cities like Hamilton, London, and Toronto have already moved forward with renoviction bylaws. Kitchener doesn\u2019t need to \u201cwait to copy their homework\u201d when solutions already exist. Every month of inaction means more tenants are displaced, with nowhere to go due to skyrocketing rents and a worsening housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p>City Council has a choice: act now to prevent mass evictions, or stand by as more working-class tenants are pushed into homelessness. ACORN will continue fighting for immediate tenant protections and urges Kitchener to take bold action before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.jasperplayer.com?brand=CTV_NEWS&#038;destination=ctvnews_web&#038;language=EN&#038;contentId=3079729\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":16605,"template":"","campaigns":[],"class_list":["post-16604","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video\/16604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/video"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"campaigns","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns?post=16604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}