Improving building standards through accountability and retrofits in Toronto
Living in substandard apartment buildings deeply affects a person’s health and general well-being. While there is a clear connection between poor housing and poor health, ailments such as asthma, heart disease, sleep disturbances and foggy thinking are just the tip of...
Training new generations of tenant leaders
With housing getting more expensive and scarcer from coast to coast, tenants are facing a tighter squeeze, with rising rents, renovictions and living in unsuitable buildings just some of the many issues that need urgent action. And although tenant organizing is well...
Project will build skills and confidence among low-income tenants
Many tenants living in low-income housing projects (known as HLMs in Québec) are people marginalized by their socio-economic situation, who have themselves internalized prejudices against them. As well, for a long time these tenants have avoided getting involved out...