The minimum income required to buy an average-priced Victoria, British Columbia home climbed to nearly $185,000 last month, according to an online mortgage brokerage
We've gotten a request for help from tenants in a 5-unit naturally affordable rental building in Wallingford for help, who just got notice of the owner's intent to sell.
What organizations that would help them organize into a co-op or a land trust?
I just went to set up #TekSavvy for my new apartment and apparently the #FiberOptic line going into the building is blocked for #IndepententServiceProviders. I've been with TekSavvy for probably close to 20 years (National Capital Freenet before that).
Especially ridiculous that they can do this going into an #AffordableHousing building and charge tenants whatever ridiculous inflated rates they want.
Do you #rent in #Ontario? Consider helping #ACORN tenants' union by filling out their rental map. From them: "A rental registry means more transparency for renters and better #housing data to protect affordable housing, inform stronger policies, and enforce existing protections for #tenants facing #renoviction or major rent increases."
As many as 31,000 homes have been taken off the long-term housing market and converted to short-term rentals in Canada, according to Wachsmuth’s 2020 study.
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Big Real Estate Executives Among Top Donors to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Conservative Party’s donors include real estate investors & developers buying up affordable housing across Canada https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111015899227109919
“Forum Asset Management property recently criticized for Vancouver viral video showing housing unit in a former SRO hotel in DTES now a “micro suite” available for $2,000 a month”