A More ‘Efficient’ Landlord And Tenant Board Will Mainly Hurt Renters
The claim that landlords and tenants stand to gain from fixing the LTB obfuscates its crucial role in sanctioning and enforcing evictions.
Cole Webber
Cole Webber is a legal clinic worker in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto.
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Only Working Class Organizing Can Defeat Renovictions
Legal and policy prescriptions can’t contain the forces driving renovictions, but the organized efforts of working class people can.
Doug Ford Is Using The Pandemic To Criminalize Tenant Organizing
In the midst of a pandemic, Ford has empowered landlords and police to impose greater discipline and hardship on working-class people.
Ontario Is Mass Evicting Tenants, In As Little As 60 Seconds
Eviction, homelessness, illness and death are considered to be acceptable outcomes of the state’s pro-landlord policies.
Ontario Is On The Brink Of Mass Evictions. We Must Fight Back.
The levels of homelessness that will result from the impending mass evictions, to start as soon as August 4, will likely be unprecedented.
COVID-19 Hasn’t Stopped Ford From Trying To Speedup Future Evictions
Ford’s objective is to spur profit-making and clear out working class people whose homes and tenancies stand in the way.