After participating in a one -month long fare strike in an attempt to resolve issues after years of complaints, tenants in two Toronto apartment buildings are scheduled to participate in a week of high anticipated. Zamindar and tenant board Hearing.
Several residents in 1440 and 1142 Lawrence Avenue gathered for a brief rally on Sunday afternoon to pay attention to their ongoing situation. They were catching a banner along with big fake cockroaches, “Stop growing the rent.”
Citynews was taken to various parts of the campus, where tenants and advocates showed issues that they still have not addressed, such as a water pond and burning and debris were burnt outside a rear entrance after a few weeks ago.
Inside the unit of a second floor, two people showed a collapse but partially back wall, a kitchen oven, which seems damaged in a small fire, and a hole under the sink. He said that some were repaired, but the issues shown are still going on.
“This is a report (For the management of the building)For example, the last three years … very bad situation, “Soyab Kastura, Soyab Kastura, a resident of two tenants, said while interpreting the city.
Kastura is one of the residents who said that he is participating in the rented strike.
“We have been struggling a lot in the last five years,” he said.
“My children too [are] Scared … We have many issues like cockroaches and bed bugs and [mice] And every day we go down to complain, but they are not listening and not right (ING). ,
Bruno Dobrusine, with an organizer York South-West Tenant UnionSaid that he is working with the affected people.
He said, “I would say unfairness. The job of a basic landlord is to maintain units where they live,” he said, said the situation briefly.
Citynues approached the investment of the Barney River in writing through a separate path on Sunday, but did not receive a response from our deadline. An on-duty superintendent asked us to come back after 9 am on Monday, saying that he was not able to comment.
Collectively, several tenants have withdrawn the fare for eight to nine months in the bid to take action.
“You put the rent as a way to collectively force the landlord to interact … No one is asking for free fare, asking for the appropriate rent,” Dobusin said.
In addition to complaints on property standards, Dobusin stated that the application to increase the rent above the annual cap through the above-direct increase (AGI). The current annual rent hat is 2.5 percent and said that the owners of the property are looking for three percent on top of it.
He said that this is a growing strategy among corporate landlords in Toronto. This has been done under claims of capital reform,
“The landlords are considered to fix the apartments and the buildings where they are working, so it is the advantage of a flaws that they have taken advantage of. But I also think it was an extraordinary means,” said Dobusin.
As the case starts on Monday, the landlord and tenant in Toronto starting on Monday, a strong hope that the board and the owners of the property will all hear and take action.
“We need to ask for help. [Landlord and Tenant Board] Help should be helped, ”Kastura said.
“We are going to fight for compensation that they have to live in view of the situation they have to live, but we are really expecting that the landlord is going to use as a place to come down and use the landlord and tenant board.”
