Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization

Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization (MNO) is an organization of tenants and working class people based in South Etobicoke

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

Thorncliffe tenants need your support. Donate below.

[RenovictionsTO @renovictions]

Tenants on rent strike in Thorncliffe Park are taking on one of the country’s largest landlords and a public sector pension with $230 billion in assets.

You can support the tenants in their fight by donating to their rent strike fund!

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[Toronto Tenant Union @TenantsUnionTO]

Clear as day:

Barney River promises NOT to evict our neighbour, backed by @TorontoPolice if she pays.

When she went down to pay she was told she was homeless.

📣Tell the LTB they need to stay this illegal eviction 📣

Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
LTB-L-021805

[Toronto Tenant Union @TenantsUnionTO]

We are still here, not going anywhere until our neighbour gets access to her unit

[Toronto Tenant Union @TenantsUnionTO]

Police blocking entrance to the office while a group remains inside. Landlord and management were escorted out by the police and have left the building.

We are not leaving until our neighbour gets back to her unit

[Toronto Tenant Union @TenantsUnionTO]

Despite heavy police presence,no one is moving.
Barney Rivers hiding behind the police.

[Thorncliffe Park Tenants @tparktenants]

Thorncliffe Park tenants on rent strike disrupted an @OntarioCofC event last week that @NorthcrestDev CEO Derek Goring was participating in. Northcrest is a subsidiary of our landlord PSP Investments. Tenants pressed our demand that PSP withdraw the AGIs at our buildings.

[RenovictionsTO @renovictions]

Above guideline rent increases (AGIs) are highlighted in the report as a significant burden for tenants.

Starlight, a Daily Bread partner, applies for more AGIs than any other landlord in Toronto—including in Thorncliffe Park where tenants have been on rent strike since May 1

[RenovictionsTO @renovictions]

As food banks talk about how rising rents contribute to food insecurity they partner with landlords like Starlight Investments, who drive up rents and make it harder for tenants to put food on the table

[Thorncliffe Park Tenants @tparktenants]

PSP Investments has filed to evict Thorncliffe Park tenants on rent strike in protest of rent hikes we can’t afford.

We continue to call on the crown corporation and public sector pension to withdraw the above guideline rent increases at our buildings.

https://t.co/2RVViSM4D0

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

What this would have amounted to is a back door mass eviction/cash grab on the part of the landlord by way of making units unliveable, in the sense that tenants would be cut off from their means of earning income or going to the doctor.

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

The tenant association at 25 Mabelle has stopped North Edge Properties dead in their tracks in their most recent attempt to eliminate all 290 tenant parking spaces in the building.

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

Over 50 tenants at 25 Mabelle, including one currently in the hospital for Covid, joined a virtual meeting last on the long weekend to strategize about how to fight their landlord’s attempt to eliminate all of the buildings parking overnight

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

Parking is scarce in Mabelle and so even if tenants wanted to park elsewhere they would be unlikely to find anything. Many tenants would likely have had to move.

[RenovictionsTO @renovictions]

Our report on renovictions in Toronto, co-authored by @colefwebber, is now available at https://t.co/Tkk6vuDxej

The report analyzes the conditions that give rise to renoviction, how landlords go about renovicting tenants and how tenants have organized in response to renoviction.

[East Scarborough Tenants Union @eastscarbtu]

After tenants in 25 Cougar Ct launched a campaign to halt Starlight/@MetCapLivingMgt's 5.5% rent increase, 12 tenants received harassing phone calls claiming to be from MetCap.

Starlight/MetCap thinks they can stop tenants from organizing, but neighbours are stronger than ever.

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

Unfortunately for management, these tenants are organized and have a history of winning their fights. They are determined to get an answer one way or another.

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

Over 50 tenants at 25 Mabelle, including one currently in the hospital for Covid, joined a virtual meeting last on the long weekend to strategize about how to fight their landlord’s attempt to eliminate all of the buildings parking overnight

[Mabelle Neighbourhood Organization @MabelleNeighbo1]

In response to tenant pressure, management has delayed the elimination of parking several times now, but has also shut down their on site office and tenants emails to management accounts are bouncing back or going unanswered.