There remains a long road to housing justice from the vantage of our own system of exploitative, for-profit rents. With new movements like the Oakwood-Vaughan Tenant Union, however, taking on the financialized landlord class and articulating working class demands for decent housing, it is possible to imagine a better, more equitable Toronto.
Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war