On June 1, 2023, tenants at 33 King Street started a rent strike in response to above-guideline rent increases (AGIs) from their landlord, Dream Unlimited….
As a former international student in the UK, the start of the academic year is a reminder of the outrageous ‘overseas student’ fees I had…
The #StopTheSweeps coalition has been organizing for nearly 2 years now – bringing together individuals and representatives from the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Pivot Legal Society, VANDU, and the Vancouver Tenants Union to directly confront street sweeps.
Landlords are looking for ways to build their wealth by exploiting the housing needs of workers and their families. But tenants can and must fight back.
On June 1, tenants at 33 King Street started a rent strike in response to yet another above-guideline rent increase (AGI). The group is part…
Safety on public transit has become a serious concern for Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) users and a microcosm of the broader ways our governments and…
Nova Scotia’s Residential Tenancies Act protects the interests of landlords while leaving tenants with few protections.
“White saviourism turns people into projects; trauma and personal stories into fundraising campaigns; communities and marginalized groups into lucrative ‘causes.’ Justice sees people in the…
The politics of housing is a struggle between the rich and the rest of us
“I’ve applied for medically assisted death (MAiD) essentially…because of abject poverty.” Those are the words of Denise (a pseudonym to protect her identity), a 31-year-old…
Police are state instruments of class violence, and are indispensable to the maintenance of capitalism. There are few ways in which that violence is deployed…
The housing market has become increasingly hoarded and monopolized by capitalists doing everything in their power to extract as much as they can from as…
