Activist experience to aid tenant involvement in huge B.C. suburb
British Columbia has the highest rate of evictions and foreclosure in the country, according to Statistics Canada. Weak tenant protection laws have allowed exploitative tactics to flourish, with developers and landlords using loopholes and intimidation to push tenants...
Training tomorrow’s leaders today!
What inhibits the development of tenant leadership in a region? During a 2019 tour and a Community Support Forum organized in Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, tenants living in non-profit or co-op dwellings or low-rental housing pointed, among other things, to feeling...
Community project will empower P.E.I.’s Indigenous tenants
While Indigenous Peoples experience racism and discrimination when searching for a place to call home, remaining housed can be even more challenging. On Prince Edward Island—where nearly one-in-three Indigenous renters who live off-reserve lack adequate, affordable...