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A Vancouver woman who is eight months pregnant says her landlord is threatening to raise the rent once her child has been born.
Joy Maynard and Antoine Moore are expecting their first child any day and have been living in their Vancouver basement suite since April 2021.
They told their landlord earlier in the summer about the pregnancy and Maynard said he informed them that his son is the owner of the house so they need to be talking to his son about these matters.
That’s when they said they were informed that any additional occupant would cost them $600 a month.
“We also told them that my mom is coming to visit. The son said that my mom is going to be considered an occupant,” Maynard said.
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#cdnpoli#canada#canadian politics#canadian news#canadian#rent#housing#renters' rights#tenants' rights#renters rights#tenants rights#vancouver#british columbia#BC#landlords
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Reframing common employer phrases into plainspeak
Laziness = poor ppl resting/playing, ever
Working vacation = rich ppl getting paid to rest/play
Rage applying = looking for a better job
Rage quitting = leaving toxic job/boss
Quiet quitting = refusing to do free labor
Blackmail = employees leveraging anything
Insubordination = talking about pay at work
Company culture = guilt trips & pizza as pay
Morality clause = make us look bad, get fired
"We're like family" = "we ask for favors, then never pay you back"
"We expect everyone to pitch in" = "we expect you to do free labor"
"HR is here to help you" = "HR is here to stop you from suing us"
Thx for coming to my TedTalk
#fishy business#antiwork#anti work#universal basic income#m4a#democratic socialists of america#democratic socialism#calcare#workers of the world unite#workers rights#labor rights#zero profit#worker cooperative#worker coop#tenant union#tenants' rights#tenants' union#union organizing
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Hey all. Me and my entire apartment complex are raising money to help the most urgently in need among us, and pay litigation fees to go after our property management company in court.
(The lawyers representing us are doing so at no charge.)
Said property management company has been continuing to rent units in our complex despite serious HVAC and plumbing issues. We've had heat and water shutoffs constantly during this winter, and it culminated at the beginning of this month in them asking everyone on the ground floor to vacate with a 30 day notice.
A little over a week later they sent out a retraction, saying that no one needed to move out, although they'd allow anyone who had already found new housing to end their lease with no penalty.
Then they tried, halfway through the month, to make everyone leave with three days' notice instead, claiming that they couldn't repair the heat and it wasn't safe for us to keep living here.
They sent out that notice on a Friday afternoon, mind you--making it even more difficult to get moving or storage arranged or contact any other leasing offices.
This wasn't legally enforceable, they didn't offer any alternate housing or help finding new permanent housing (at least not until people started threatening to sue), and now they're aggressively trying to get us to break up our collective organizing.
My roommates and I are okay--we're in the group that originally was told to leave and had been planning to move out anyway. But it's still been an incredibly stressful and disruptive experience.
Many of our former neighbors are in much worse situations and could really use help.
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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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I just learned the term "vacancy control." It means landlords can't jack up the price of a unit between tenants. This video is BC (Canada) -centric, but its debunking of the arguments developers use to avoid this and rent control applies everywhere.
This is personal for me because I just found out my landlord wants to sell my building. If I end up having to move (like if the new owners rebuild our long-in-the-tooth building as luxury apts or condos), my rent will go up considerably, and I don't know how I'm going to pay for that.
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Remember that part of the purpose of propaganda is to convince you that you're helpless, and it's working, even on people who seem immune to other forms of propaganda. Like, I saw a post that was such a blatant violation of tenant's rights, that any mention of those rights existing or the ability to sue would probably cause the landlord to back down. But people were telling OP she shouldn't try anything because it's impossible for capitalists to lose in courts. Like, you realize you're running capitalism's propaganda wing for them?
If your position is that small scale resistance is useless because capitalists always win under our system, that incremental change is useless because democracy isn't real, and that revolution is useless because capitalists are too strong, then your "leftist theory" is capitalist propaganda.
#196#my thougts#left#leftism#leftist#antifacism#antifa#antifascism#protest#praxis#marxism#communist#tenants rights
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Little message for any Americans who come across my blog:
REJECT YOUR HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION!!!!!!
GROW NATIVE PLANTS AND/OR CORN ON YOUR FRONT LAWN!!!!!!!!
Not saying you HAVE to! But HOAs are still a stupid idea anyway.
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And if you can’t do that. Defy them in any way you can. No matter how small it may be.
FUCK HOAs!
HOAs can eat shit!
Feel free to reblog the shit out of this one if you wish!
Also please reblog my posts on sending aid to the Armenians and the Assyrian people too! They’re on my blog.
#personal stuff#dougie rambles#political crap#for any yanks out there#anti homeowner association#fuck the HOA#housing#homeowner association#anti lawn#anti mowing#fuck HOAs#rewilding#homeowners association#corn#reblog this#anti HOA#no more mowing#pollinators#tenant rights#anti landlords#fuck landlords#neighbourhood associations#kill your lawn#lawn#fuck lawns#signal boost#signal b00st#signal boooooost#please reblog this#reblog the shit out of this
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Georgia Tennent is a fucking hero, the hero we need. All images from from Georgia’s Insta
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Ricardo Tranjan wants Canadians to rethink what we call our national housing crisis. Tranjan, a researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says what we’re experiencing can’t even be called a crisis—our housing system hasn’t suddenly failed. Instead it’s working exactly as designed, enriching property owners at the expense of everyone else. The problem is that it’s gone into sudden overdrive.
That’s why he thinks the fixes espoused by government and industry—more supply, for the most part—aren’t going to get us where we need to be. Instead, he wants to inject politics back into the housing discussion, framing the problem as an issue of class, with tenants on one side and landowners on the other.
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Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics
#cdnpoli#canadian news#canada#housing#housing crisis#classism#tenants rights#renters rights#mine#he's right!!
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Canada's rental crisis is getting worse, according to a new report that found the average asking price for rent in September was $2,149 — up by more than 11 per cent compared with a year ago.
That's according to a data analysis of tens of thousands of new rental listings across the country from Rentals.ca and real estate consulting and research firm Urbanation.
And according to the September report, average rents aren't just headed up — they're increasing at their fastest pace this year.
While the general national trend is pricier rents, the situation is playing out differently in individual markets.
Toronto remains one of the most expensive in the country, with the average cost of a one-bedroom property now at $2,614 a month. But the pace of rent hikes in the Ontario city has slowed considerably in recent months and was down by 0.2 per cent from August's level. Compared with one year ago, Toronto rents are up by 4.9 per cent. [...]
Continue Reading.
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every couple of months something from like 2011-2016 starts trending again and everyone is like “ARE WE REGRESSING????” or “WHAT YEAR IS IT????”
idk guys it happens so often that maybe we should consider that no one on this site actually moved on
#yes this is in response of Dan and Phil and Merlin trending again#Dan and Phil#Merlin#homestuck#<- I guess homestuck is also trending now#shitpost#no one on this hell site actually moved on right?#mentally? I’m still in 2013-2016#wtf do you mean it’s 2023#just watch and dnp games video it’ll be alright#hunger games#John green#<- apparently he is back?#david tenant#<- although when has he NOT been trending here#merlin bbc#bbc merlin#tumblr
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Hello, bitches! I don't think I saw this in the renter's master post, but how does one go about breaking a lease in the least financially ruinous way possible? My apartment flooded for the 3rd time in 12 months due to an improper drainage system, and I am FED UP. I have family telling me to sue over it, but I'd be content if they let me break the lease without fees or penalties.
If your apartment keeps flooding and your landlord has not fixed the problem... then your LANDLORD HAS ALREADY BROKEN YOUR LEASE.
A lease is a legal contract. Which means the landlord AND tenant both have responsibilities in order to keep the contract valid. There is usually language in there about the landlord keeping the unit in good maintenance. Constant flooding is NOT good maintenance. And if your property has been damaged by the flooding, the landlord could actually owe YOU, either for temporary housing or replacement of property.
So go read your lease, find the clause about maintenance, and take it to your landlord and say "According to this clause right here, you're in violation of our rental agreement. Therefore, I am moving out without penalty. If you'd like to discuss this, I'll have my lawyer get in touch." (Note: not everyone can afford a lawyer, but if you know anyone even tangentially related to a law firm, use the line about the lawyer. My husband's uncle and aunt are lawyers and the one time I used this line to resolve a labor dispute, it scared the bastard so much that they stopped their bullshit and paid me for my work with no further argument.)
Lastly: we are not infallible. Your state government website should have a section on tenant's rights. Look up this information to see if there are any other protections you can take advantage of before going nuclear on your shitty landlord.
The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Affordable Housing Crisis, Explained
Ask the Bitches: Why Are Painted Mason Jars the Internet's Only Solution to My Tiny Apartment Woes?
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"Parents, Children Separated by Eviction," Windsor Star. October 28, 1943. Page 3.
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REFUSED a wartime housing residence, the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hunter is separated and their household goods are piled in front of their former home, 1022 Felix avenue. The mother and father and six children are living with neighbors. Mayor Arthur J. Reaume is seeking to obtain a home for them by going over the head of Mr. Thomas Gray, Windsor administrator of Wartime Housing, Limited, who refused the Hunters a house because they are "undesirable tenants." Mr. and Mrs. Hunter and three of the children are shown above with the curb-piled furniture.
#windsor#eviction#wartime housing#evicted#tenants' rights#landlordism#punishing the poor#canada during world war 2#landlords vs tenants
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Hey Ontario folks, since we're in the time of year when the temperature is dropping but a lot of landlords haven't bothered to turn the heat on yet, the Landlord Tenant Board requires that rental units in Ontario be heated to 20 degrees C from Sept 1 - June 15. Your local municipality might set the requirement higher - for example, in mine it's 21 degrees C throughout the year.
Please note that this only applies to units where your landlord provides heat - so, for example, in an apartment where the heat is controlled by the landlord, not in a house you rent where you can turn the heat up and down. (Also worth noting that if you live in the same unit as your landlord - for example, renting a room in your landlord's house - LTB regulations do not apply to you.)
But yeah if it's fucking cold in your apartment or rental unit and you don't control the heat, ask your landlord to turn it on - and if they're an asshole about it, and the LTB covers you, call them on it or file a complaint.
And if you're not sure about how cold/warm your place is, buy one of those cheap outdoor thermometers and keep it somewhere. I bought one last year just so I could call my landlord on keeping the place like 4 degrees below the requirement.
I can't speak for other places, but most will have similar heat requirements, so check your local tenancy laws!!
#ontario#rental units#tenant rights#landlords#ontario heat#signed a disgruntled gay who just had to tell their landlord to turn on the heat yet again#bro it is 17 degrees in here c'mon
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The joyous convergence of my leftist politics and my job as a therapist is when I get to help a client research local tenants’ rights laws to help them get out from under a shoddy landlord.
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