#tenants rights

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Two Ontario residents have created a website that allows tenants to anonymously rate their landlords.

The Rate The Landlord website has grown in popularity since its launch three weeks ago, and now has more than 1,500 reviews from tenants..

The two co-founders — who CBC News agreed not to name over concerns for their safety — said they decided to build the platform because while tenants have to provide a lot of personal information when leasing a property, there is a lack of transparency when it comes to landlords.

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#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #canada #rate the landlord #ontario #tenants rights #renters rights

[whereserpentswalk]

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

[iww-gnv]

#news #tenant rights #minnesota #renter rights #renters rights #tenants rights

[newsfromstolenland]

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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#cdnpoli #canadian news #canada #housing #housing crisis #classism #tenants rights #renters rights #mine #he's right!!

[defleftist]

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.

#leftist #communist #leftblr #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #landlord #landlords are scum #fuck landlords #therapist #counselor #mental health counselor #therapy #counseling #leftist therapist #rent #tenants rights #power to the people #capitalism #tenants rights laws

[ragemovement]

Shawnee, Kansas just banned co-living

#news #kansas #politics #shawnee #tenants rights #housing

[briearesea]

Quite possibly the best headline ever!

This is legal precedent, right?

#briearesea #i cant believe my other post about this got like 1 note so im gonna post it again #dont make me blaze this #swords #landlord #tenants rights

[polclarissou]

illustrations for the local housing committee! if you're a verdun tenant you should hit them up / get involved with some of the working groups!

https://cacv-verdun.org

bonus material: rejected cat faces (1- literally demonic 2- gros matou type bitch too goofy for the job)

#illustration #2D #CACV #verdun #housing #tenants rights #duality of cat #decommodify cheese #landlords get glomped

[allthecanadianpolitics]

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

[fixomnia-scribble]

These proposed changes would have prevented my being evicted in callously bad faith a year ago. A twelve year tenancy terminated to move the landlord's kid in...and it turned out they didn't even need my flat after all.

Apparently I'm still carrying around some bitterness...

I am unbelievably lucky I ended up on my feet, but that was due to the support of friends and family. And I am now living much farther away from them and from work, and above my means, because there isn't anywhere within range, geographically or financially.

#bcpoli #bc politics #tenancy #tenants rights #rentals

[mentholdyke]

just so i write this and hopefully people see it, but the right is hyper focused on squatters rights right now. this is because there is a terrifying increase in the number of Americans becoming houseless. “squatters rights” are a derogatory term meant to protect tenants of absentee landlords. as half of Americans stop being able to afford their rent, landlords have been scrambling to find ways to legally protect their pyramid schemes, which the US state has enabled through deep integration of our legal system with private property rights — think police forces enforcing tresspassing and vagrency laws, but now turned up to 100 as we allow more and more people to die on the streets.

#landback #tenants rights #acab #landlords #human rights #class war #anti capitalism

[newsfromstolenland]

Earlier this month, Toronto and East York Community Council unanimously approved a rental housing demolition application for 25 St. Mary St., which is just south of Bloor Street East between Bay and Yonge streets. The property’s owner, Tenblock, wants to construct two new towers that are 54 and 59 storeys in place of the current v-shaped structure on that site. City council is set to consider the matter at its May 10 meeting.

[...]

Under City of Toronto Act, renters who are displaced by a building’s demolition are entitled to return to their unit and pay similar rent once the building is redeveloped. They’re also entitled to be compensated for their moving expenses as well as the gap in rent for a comparable temporary unit, and notice before vacating.

Those rights could, however, be compromised by newly introduced provincial legislation, which if passed, would weaken municipal rental replacement bylaws and give the province greater authority.

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#cdnpoli #canadian news #canadian politics #canada #toronto #ontario #housing #tenant rights #tenants rights #housing rights #evictions #eviction #demoviction #mine

[lesbienyu]

she understands the landlord tenant agreement in her jurisdiction til she warranty of habitability violation on my lease agreement

#this isnt anything but if one person googles those words I will have helped #tenants rights #shit post

[defleftist]

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

[overlysensitiverobot]

‘You could be one of the good ones, but the reality is, 99% of our tenants… just… aren’t”

I had offered the use of the bond, to insulate the house, and Michelle was explaining why that would be too much risk to the owner.

‘Anything could happen you see?’ She explained kindly. ‘You could stop paying rent, or damage the property. The owner would have to cover that themselves. The owner doesn’t have to provide insulation, and insulation only effects the tenant, not the owner, so it would be too much risk to allow the bond to be used.

“Oh” I replied, suddenly understanding. “so, because insulation only effects the tenant, not the owner, it’s a risk for the owner to use the bond?”

‘Exactly’ she replied ‘the owner doesn’t get anything out of that’

‘How about keeping a good tenant?’ I offered.

“Oooh and look, it might be, that you are one of the good ones..” she cooed emphatically , “but the reality is, 99% of our tenants… just… aren’t”

Who was I to argue? After all, the last tenants had literally trashed the place. I know, as we had just spent a month cleaning thick greasy dust off every surface, removing building debris and rubbish from the gardens, steam cleaning the carpets and repainting the walls and ceilings of our rental, getting it ready for us to move in to. So I’ll be honest, I didn’t think it was going to be too hard to prove we were good tenants worth keeping. Surely worth insulating.. I made a video of the work we’d done, and the work we were planning to do. But time after time, staff member after staff member, refused to acknowledge the work we’d put in, or that the footage even existed.

That’s odd. I thought.

It wasn’t the only thing that was odd.

It quickly became apparent that the property managers job was to protect the owner – from me.

Wait.. Am I the enemy in this scenario? I wondered. If so, why? I had kinda assumed we’d be working together, towards a common goal. Surely getting the best out of the owners investment was a win win for everyone? Right?…. Right?

You see, this was no ordinary tenancy, I had applied specifically to this tenancy with the offer to ‘do up’ the house at my own cost. It was a personal passion project. Something I’d always wanted to do. And something about this house had my creative juices flowing. In return I wanted long term sustainabile housing… we tried to get something in writing, but gosh darn it, we just couldn’t seem to get the wording right, but that’s no big deal I thought, we all clearly wanted the same thing, there’s time for that later. I needed to get a better idea of the investment I’d be making anyway.

So I signed up under the guidance of the very charasmatic James, and as soon as that was done I was never allowed to speak with him again- EVER.

Infact everything changed

Communication with the owner, was no longer allowed.

My offers to help to get the fence fixed, not allowed

Use of the bond to insulate the house, not allowed

Clarification on whether or not the owner did infact want the kind of tenancy I was offering- not allowed.

Acknowledging the work we’d put into the house – not allowed

After months of trying to find a member of the realestate to give me a straight answer, I ended up on the door step of the owners house to find out if they wanted me or not - in person.

-Aaaaaand, well, look. That’s a story on it’s own, and I am… really looking forward to telling it – spoiler free- so, ya’ll just gonna have to wait -

It’s a good storey. A story of discovery, as it just so happens that I have undertaken an…. incredibly intensive and enlightening 6 month journey. We are talking about a journey that can only be described as extreme in every sense of the word - There’s; inward and outward epiphanies, physical feats un-precedented, dareing stunts, twists, turns, dizzying highs and heart breaking lows. It has been the kind of journey that changes a person. The kind of journey that restarts a life.

And I owe all this to the plight of property managers.

So, if you are a property manager, and you can hear me, I’d like to thank you, because I think I finally figured out why I wasn’t able find anyone to advocate me as ‘good tenant worth keeping’. And why good tenants are just so gosh darn hard to find.

.. to be continued

#trying_tenant #tenant #real estate #property manager #tenants rights #my story #mental health #funny

[radicalurbanista]

I’ve never heard of yimby/nimby before I saw that post about housing in Jerusalem on your blog. What is it or do you have recommendations on where I can learn more about it?

It's hard to point to a centralized source because it's all so relatively new. I would say there's 3 main terms around this to understand.

YIMBY (Yes In My BackYard) - A political campaign emerging around the mid 90s in response to NIMBYs. A neo-liberal, largely white, and tech-sponsored campaign spanning a spectrum of market-deregulation and expansion (its core) to tenants rights (more fringe but growing). They rally around the “housing shortage” and increasing the number of any units, and waiting for filtering, as a solution.

NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) - A political campaign emerging in the early 80s or so, primarily meant to identify wealthy white homeowners who oppose apartments or affordable developments. However, YIMBYs are increasing using this term to identify people politically to the left of them. See #3

Left-NIMBY - someone opposed to a development because they believe it to be insufficient or harmful. This term is increasingly being used by YIMBYs to diminish the advocacy of poor Black and brown communities opposed to gentrification. It also identifies that YIMBYs place themselves at the top of a horse-shoe political spectrum where centrism is golden.

YIMBYism, as a neo-liberal campaign, spans everyone from republican developers and tech CEOs to your typical democrat 30-something who believes private development will benefit their neighborhood under certain conditions. Important to note is that YIMBYs are staunchly pro-market, pro-capitalism, and anti-socialism. They co-opt radical language (e.g. "exclusionary zoning") to appear progressive but in policy, it's 1) more power to finance and real estate capitalists and 2) the transfer or public money to said private groups. YIMBYism is Neo-colonialism.

This has been my master's degree, employment, and life's work for three years now, and there’s so much more I want to say, but I'll point to a few sources to understand these dynamics and groups more.

YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis

Does Building Luxury Condos Create More Affordable Housing?

The Greed of San Francisco’s Hyper-Gentrifying Classes

 urban planners toward liberation

#yimby #nimby #housing #urban planning #tenants rights #ask reply #8.27.22