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Tamer Abaza and his company Smart Living Properties, notorious for their history of mass evictions, are currently attempting a rebrand in Sandy Hill. Smart Living Properties (SLP) signs in the...
After their landlord Tamer Abaza, CEO of Smart Living properties (SLP), has refused to meet for over a year despite multiple requests, on Sunday, November 10 the Bank Block Tenants...
Our block on Bank Street - between Lisgar and Nepean - has been targeted for demolition. We formed Bank Block Tenants to save our homes. We’re fighting back against the...
My tenant association, Bank Block Tenants (BBT), is a group of tenants representing two buildings in downtown Ottawa, namely 227 Bank St and 178 Nepean Street. We are fighting a...
Image credit: Colin White
Image credit: Colin White
Image credit: Julie Ivanoff
The following is a written interview conducted with the East Scarborough Tenants Union (ESTU), a people’s organization fighting for working-class tenants in Scarborough Ontario. It outlines the perspective of ESTU,...
Pension funds are rarely thought of as exciting institutions, let alone arenas of class warfare. However, the development of pension funds has been deeply shaped by different class interests. They...
Working class renters in Ottawa are no strangers to displacement. How many of us have received an email or a notice from our landlord saying the landlord wants us to...
Landlords are taking away affordable housing faster than it can be built.
Who needs a landlord? The mainstream media, the government, and the landlords themselves would all give us the same answer. They would tell us that landlords are necessary. They would...
“We need to build tenant power. Building-by-building, and block-by-block.”
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Image credit: Colin White
Image credit: Colin White
Image credit: Julie Ivanoff
