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The most helpless I feel as a mental health counselor is when my clients are at risk of losing their housing. It’s so fucked up. Housing is a human right.
#housing#housing for all#housing is a human right#eviction#tenants#tenants rights#therapist#counselor#mental health counseling#mental health counselor#leftist#communist#leftblr#socialist#communism#socialism#anti capitalist#anti capitalism#leftist politics#human rights#anarchism#anarchist#power to the people#counseling#therapy
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While we have the rich 'King Charles' and his class of parasites in Britain, the ordinary citizen can't even afford to pay the rent anymore.
Profiteering landlords are now raising the rent every time there is an increase in the bank rate... which could be several times a year, instead of an annual rent rise... in a rental market that already makes it hard to afford even a basic roof over your head.
Britain is a corrupt tax shelter for wealthy fatcats, thanks to the Tory (Conservative) Party government since 2010.
Thirteen years of austerity, Brexit, a cost of living crisis, sewage in our rivers and seashores, an underfunded healthcare system, no affordable dentists, no affordable homes, lousy pay... but plenty of tax cuts for the rich Tory cronies, knighthoods and lordships for their pals and donors, and fat paychecks for Tory MPs from their 2nd jobs as 'consultants' to wealthy corporations.
And yet people voted them in...
How stupid can the British people be? Like turkeys voting for Christmas.
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This morning, I found ten ants in my kitchen. I handed them a bill for rent. Ain't no tenants gonna live in my house rent free.
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“The Kingston Community Legal Clinic is warning residents after a Landlord and Tenant Board adjudicator decided a landlord was wrongfully attempting to evict their tenant.
“The landlord seeks possession of the rental unit so his mother can live there,” adjudicator Laura Hartslief wrote in her June 28 decision on the fate of Jason Martin’s home in the basement unit of 151 Fraser St. “I am not satisfied that it is more likely than not that she genuinely intends to live there.”
Jordan Morelli, a physics professor at Queen’s University who owns the rental unit, said he is devastated by Hartslief’s decision.
“It’s a complete outrage that we’ve lost this thing because I’ve been trying to get my parents here for two years,” Morelli said. “I really want my parents to be living in there.”
John Done of the Kingston Community Legal Clinic represented Martin at the Landlord and Tenant Board hearing. He said his clinic has seen a significant increase in evictions for landlords to renovate units or to use for their own use — which is what Morelli applied for. In many of those cases, but not all, landlords evict a tenant who is paying a lower rent, renovate the unit, and rent it out again for sometimes double the cost.
Done said that, at first, Martin was resigned to moving out, but when Done saw Martin’s case, he urged him to push back against Morelli.
“These are situations we see all of the time in a Landlord’s Own Use application, and our view is (that) once we start putting these under the microscope, a lot of them don’t have merit,” Done said. “Once Mr. Martin said he would accept our help, then there were, indeed, some things that sort of leaped off the page. … There were the hallmarks of these (types of) landlords’ applications that I don’t think they could show good faith.”
Martin, who on Wednesday said he still couldn’t believe he was successful, said Done worked wonders. Martin said, the stress of the case, which was drawn out over two years due to a scheduling overflow caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, has caused Martin to lose five jobs over the two years.
“When I got that decision, I actually had to leave work,” Martin, who has been working steadily at a local fishing tackle manufacturing company since the end of May, said excitedly. “I couldn’t believe it, and I was overwhelmed. I was shaking, I couldn’t talk, my brain went to mush. I’m very happy with the decision.”
Morelli owns a total of 10 units within five properties in Kingston. He said he wanted to use Martin’s apartment as a new home for his mother, Henriette Morelli, who currently lives in a two-bedroom condominium with her husband, Edwin Morelli, in Saskatoon.”
- Steph Crosier, “Tenant wins at board hearing,” Kingston Whig-Standard. Jul 11, 2022. This was a front page story in the print edition.
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We are happy that this story is now out in the open for all to see. It won't be the last word on the matter, that's for sure. But it clearly demonstrates why Queen's University professor and faculty association president (as well as former president of the Kingston NDP riding association) Jordan Morelli's N12 eviction notice was thrown out at the LTB. In our opinion, what this stories reveals is that Morelli is willing to exploit the housing crisis for his own financial gain.
Prior to this instance, there was two previous times where he claimed family members were moving in to units when they never did. He paid these tenants a meagre $3000, money which they quickly burned through with their rent prices hundreds of dollars a month higher. Meanwhile, he charged higher rents to the people moving in: one unit went from $409 to $1150 a month, while another went from $670 to $1200. He made that money back within months.
Morelli wants to claim he is a victim in all this, and actually goes so far as saying that the landlord tenant laws works well for tenants. But the facts speak for themselves: The LTB rejected his case because they do not believe his story. Additionally, close to 90 percent of tenants at the LTB have no legal representation, and if it weren't for KUT and KCLC supporting Morelli's tenant, Morelli would most likely have someone living in Martin's unit's at double the rent.
Tenants can win when they stand up and fight. Get to know your neighbours and organize with them! In Martin's case, former tenants stood with Martin to explain what had happened to them after moving out. This sort of solidarity led to Martin staying in his apartment at a rent price he can afford. KUT stands with tenants across the city and will do what we can to help.
- official statement of the Kingston / Katarokwi Union of Tenants, July 12, 2022 (Martin is a member)
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The tenant union had helped several other tenants of Morelli, who had also been told they would have to move out of his own properties for the same reason of family need, and the communication between tenants allowed them to learn he was using the same line on several tenants - allowing the tenants to resist his efforts or negotiate for better accommodation to leave. Martin’s is the first official victory against this particular landlord, but likely won’t be the last. Of course, Morelli is a self-pitying landlord in all of this, being quoted in the article as saying: “Somehow I’m the bad guy in all of this; they’re trying to paint me as a villain.”
Morelli is hardly the worst landlord in Kingston, Ontario, and nowhere near as powerful as a rental company like Homestead. His tactics are typical of landlords everywhere. The reason why he acts the way he does, and can act the way he does, is at base a structural issue, in which housing is an investment and a means of accumulation rather than a basic right. But Kingston is a smallish town, with a proportionately smallish, vague, fragmented, and often dysfunctional ‘left’, so Morelli’s role has been controversial and increasingly divisive. Notably, it was discovered by the tenant union that his mother, who he has been claiming he was going to move into one of these vacated units, is a retired university professor who likely doesn’t want to live in a tiny basement apartment!
As the press release from KUT notes, Morelli is a major player in the local political scene, as former riding president for the federal NDP, as secretary of the Kingston and District Labour Council (and had the temerity to send this article to other council members, even after the Council passed a pro-tenant motion!) and at Queen’s University, where he is a professor and head of the faculty association. In those roles, he is a bad faith opponent of tenant rights, student activism, grassroots unionism, and the left-wing of the NDP (as well as the small, overlapping and fractious autonomist, anarchist, communist and decolonial groups in the area). For instance, this was his response to the Ontario government, controlled by Conservatives, capping rent increases!
If there was any justice in the world or social democracy and labour unionism was not so pathetically degenerated, this kind of coverage should get him kicked out of the KDLC or NDP.
#kingston ontario#tenant union#tenant organizing#tenant and landlord board#tenant rights#tenants#landlords#landlordism#rental housing#housing is a human right#rental capitalism#canadian politics#labour council#queen's university
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NYC rent strike 1938
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In East Anglia and the town of Oxford, about one in every seven landowners was a woman, and 14 per cent of the tenants on royal lands were named as women.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
#book quote#normal women#philippa gregory#nonfiction#east anglia#oxford#women#land ownership#royal lands#tenants
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Private equity has been rapidly growing its share of the housing market, taking advantage of a housing crisis and in some cases exacerbating it. But as large corporate landlords grow in power, tenants are increasingly rallying together and finding creative ways to hit them in their pockets.
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Since recently we posted some things about tourism, I think this will be interesting to share too. I’ve translated to English a news video and an article about one of the main problems that come with the massification of tourism: gentrification and the expulsion of local people.
As a reference, when in Catalan we talk about “the islands” it means the Balearic (Mallorca and Menorca) including the Pityusic (Eivissa and Formentera) islands.
English speakers are more familiar with the translated name “Ibiza”, but in this post I’ll be using the island’s native name “Eivissa”.
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4th June 2022. Source: TV3.
Doctors, teachers or waiters, without an affordable place to live in the Islands
The price of apartments is focused towards tourism and makes it impossible for people who want to live in it to pay it, so they have to resign from their jobs because they can’t make it [they have to pay too much compared to the money they get paid]
The prices set for tourism in the Islands makes it practically impossible for people who work there to find a place to live that they can pay.
It’s not a new situation, but it has spread and is becoming worse. And this has the consequence that jobs are left vacant, from healthcare to teaching, waiters or electricians.
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Journalist: Maria Margalida Perelló has been living in a hotel. She was supposed to start working as a substitute teacher in a high school in Eivissa and she didn’t find any place.
Maria Margalida Perelló: I can’t do it economically, to live in a hotel, where you don’t have a kitchen, you have to go eat out or try to manage. Every weekend I wasn’t living here, I go back to Mallorca because it’s much more affordable to do that.
J: There are more teachers in the same hotel. If you don’t join the job offer, you’re penalized [in the system that assigns teaching places]. On the internet, an active Telegram group helps substitute teachers find a flat, but now towards the end of the school year it’s impossible.
The islands are full of examples of the lack of affordable renting apartments. In general in all the islands, and in the Pityusic islands, for years it has been even more worrying.
Pep Martí, works at a shop: There has been weeks where we have gotten 10 or 12 people coming here only to look for a house, a living place, one room, whatever we can offer them.
J: It’s not possible to find waiters nor cooks. The waiting list for stonecutters, plumbers or electricians is long. Nurses and medical professionals don’t want to come. In Formentera’s hospital they have been left for weeks without any oncologist. To the problems of work stability, they must add the problem of a place to live in.
Pepo Rubio, from Ràdio Illa Formentera: Not only is it expensive on an economic level, it’s also expensive for its conditions. They should have to accept the renters who want to live here all year. For example, [renters] have to abandon their usual place of residence in summer [because landlords prefer to rent it to tourists].
J: That’s why everything is for rent. Shared rooms, garages that become living spaces. These are the 12 apartments that the police has gotten in one of the most troubled neighbourhoods of the island, Sa Penya.
About 40 families lived here in substandard housing that the City Hall of Eivissa has reformed and has now given to Policia Nacional [Spanish police] who are destined to the island. An experience of making two very different worlds live together.
Doctors and nurses are now also asking to be given a living space for free in summer to be able to come and cover the needs of the island’s hospitals.
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10th April 2018. Source: LaSexta.
A balcony for 500€, a room for 1,000€, a mattress for 500€... the other face of Eivissa, where it’s almost impossible to live
Flats shared with 12 people, rooms that reach 1,000€ of rent each month or only a mattress for 500€. Living in Eivissa is almost mission impossible and not only in summer. The platform Affected by Touristic Flats brings together 9,000 inhabitants of the island. Some families leave their city because the situation is unsustainable.
A room with only one bed and dampness for 500€, that’s where Alexandra sleeps with her 12-year-old son. With a job and a stable income, this is the best she has been able to find. “There are balconies for 500€, rooms with 3 beds for 600€ each bed, I have my job and even working I can’t pay for a home”, she says.
Another flat is inhabited by 13 people, until now they paid 250€ for a mattress and now their landlord want to fit two more people and raise their rent to 350€ each. Her name is Lourdes, she’s from Eivissa and she sleeps in a room with her mother and her two children. The daughter is already 3 years old but she has to keep sleeping in her cradle because there isn’t room for anything else.
Taking a look on the internet, we’ve found many adverts; we called one of them, showed ourselves interested in a room and this was the answer: “The flat is 3,000€, it has three rooms and I have to divide the expenses, it’s 1,000€ per room.”
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All of this is deriving in an increase of shanty towns, where employed workers live. They can’t find homes anywhere and with their salary they can’t pay for any room. This is the other face of Eivissa.
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I think these two give the idea. But there are many more examples of this situation in the islands, even more so in Eivissa, which is a hotspot for international nightlife tourism (for example, this one about paying 800€ each month to live in a flat infested with rats).
And yes, when they say “balcony” they don’t mean a flat with a balcony, they mean that the person lives completely only in the balcony, outdoors. The ones marked in red in the next photo are examples of rented balconies in Eivissa:
(Photo source: Última Hora)
#actualitat#eivissa#illes balears#tourism#ibiza#touristification#gentrification#housing#housing rights#renters rights#landlords#capitalism#tenants#housing crisis#current events#class struggle#homeless#human rights#europe
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"The release of the Ontario Ombudsman’s new report on the province’s Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) warrants reflection on the primary role of the tribunal: evictions.
The Ombudsman wrote that tenants and landlords share a common interest in making the LTB run smoothly. In truth, a more efficient approach to processing cases at the LTB will only further speed up evictions and serve to facilitate the profit-making of landlords who can raise rents on vacant units once sitting tenants have been removed.
Despite the LTB’s many internal issues, the main reason the tribunal is overwhelmed is due to the sheer volume of eviction cases landlords file against tenants. Tribunals Ontario reported that in 2021-2022, 88 per cent of all applications received by the LTB were filed by landlords against tenants, and in 89 per cent of those applications (more than 48,500), landlords sought to evict tenants.
Landlords also added to the much-discussed backlog of cases at the LTB throughout the entirety of the pandemic, as the Ontario government allowed them to continue to file for eviction against tenants uninterrupted. In fact, the Ombudsman reported that during the first pandemic lockdown in March 2020, when eviction hearings were paused for a short time, the LTB still struggled to process the high number of applications it continued to receive.
The discussion surrounding the problems at the LTB often neglects to mention the political history of the tribunal. In 1997, the Mike Harris Conservative government enacted the Tenant Protection Act, which eliminated rent control on vacant units between tenants, instituting what is known as vacancy decontrol. At the same time, the law removed landlord-tenant cases from the provincial court system and created the precursor to the LTB to handle them, the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal.
During the legislative debate at the time, the minister of housing said that his government’s goal was to create favourable conditions for investment in housing. In reality, his government made it more potentially profitable for landlords to evict tenants, and failed to encourage the construction of any significant amount of new, purpose-built rental housing."
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A friend added this:
"According to this article and the Ombudsman's report, in 2021-22, 88 percent of applications to LTB were by landlords against tenants. Of that 88 percent, 89 percent were landlords seeking evictions. In other words, 78 percent of all LTB applications are for evictions!
I can hear the cries now: "If tenants have problems, they can also file with the LTB!" The vast majority of tenant problems are immediate problems, like shit that needs fixing and harassment and illegal behaviour by landlords. Most tenant problems are not solved by the LTB and often not even solved by landlords. Many tenants fix their own problems because waiting for the landlord is a hassle. The LTB is a virtual non-factor in the lives of tenants, but the landlord's means of getting rid of tenants they don't want or who stand in the way of a profitable new redevelopment.
The above numbers put into perspective the grievance of landlords that the LTB has too long a backlog. It is the volume of eviction applications that is the source of the backlog. And by pure coincidence we've been pelted with news story after story since the start of the pandemic of the worst possible tenants living rent-free for many months while the poor landlord's family is caught in the lurch while establishing their little neo-feudal exploitation scheme. You don't even need to read the press. The Terrorizing Tenant is a story you'll hear often enough.
Are the landlords calling for the LTB to be expanded to meet needs? No, their intimate collaborators in government are seeking efficiencies! You see, the the backlog is a problem to be solved by efficiency! Never mind the avalanche of eviction applications from landlords!
How many of these evictions are the disgusting and widely-abused practice of renovictions? Aren't renovictions an unnecessary burden to the LTB? And if the LTB is so burdened, why isn't it the LTB expanded to meet the demand? None of it makes sense because what's really at play here is setting up a public institution to fail because it insufficiently serves the interests of those parasitically profiting off other people's wages and basic need for shelter.
The pattern is pretty similar in healthcare and education and numerous other public institutions that are starved into failure, populated with wrecker-managers, and then reorganized (or contracted out) in the interests of profit-seeking sections of the business class.
Combined with a raft of new developer-demanded rules on housing (the end of municipal oversight in the development of new buildings of 12 or fewer units; the end of environmental protection and conservation), the renoviction blitzkrieg will only continue to throw thousands of people out of their homes while spoiling the environment - all for the profit and power of people who are driving this province to hell.
The landowning class won decisive battles in the 1990s and now we live in the aftermath of their class war victory. A new and restored publicly-financed co-operative and public housing program is decades overdue. The abolition of landlordism is centuries overdue."
#landlordism#landlords#evictions#tenants' rights#landlord and tenant board#renovictions#ontario politics#canadian politics#housing#housing crisis#tenants#renting#rental housing#class war#covid19#coronavirus pandemic
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So I learned that I have alters but I discovered a great word for them that works great for me and my median system. That word is "tenants." Y'know like they're taking up space in there but I'm not them and they're not me. They just live there. But they're there because I relate so much to them and their source. Sort of like copinglinks and synpath too.
Facets, or as I call them, personas are me and I'm them. They are my different faces. My different masks. But not in the sense that I'm putting on an act and faking this! It just feels better for muis personally to call them personas. Maybe more in the sense of Jung's theories if y'all know anything about that.
I just realized too that I need to call some of the aliens tenants as well. They come and visit and then go back home. My body just gets used and I talk with them. In a sense, they can be imaginary friends although that's embarrassing to admit as a 30 something year old...
#median system#median#plurality#median plurality#alters#tenants#plurality terms#facets#personas#synpath#copinglink#otherkin#alterhuman#alienkin#all systems welcome#all systems are valid#endogenic friendly#pro endo#pro endogenic
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