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just want to leave. but where we can go to the brand situation all over toronto's the same way. there is, it is addiction by another name. and have you had any response from that cap yet? i guess it's rather harassing bar have a sign on her. she have a sign on her balcony about the red stripe and they threatened her victor. i'm giving you this notice because i want to end your tenancy. i want you to move out of your rental unit by such and such date reason. i believe that you or someone living with you has committed an illegal act and 6, a series critic, ality. yeah, on my group for legal action, guns and drugs. and oh my god, a shame africa with arden arden category there. yeah. so this was based on the banner. yeah. you know, we're not that melting room or anything just as may 1st rent strike. yeah. they are 19 buildings in the area and that's their plan for all the buildings is to get people like us. so the neighborhoods getting gentrified to, if you know, familiar with liberty village, it's moving. it's come right up to king and duffer and, and this is, it's only one direction into our neighbor, and we're in the way. ah ah ah, no, i own. i only go if you're so nice it or go 11. so that churn did you go directly to the chart in the greater toronto area, for example, in the last 30 years, housing prices have increased by 425 percent. whereas in a similar 30 year period, average family income has only grown by a 133 percent. so something else is in play and clearly it's not the economic fundamentals as you can see from the above graph. so are you gonna send this or else or what 9 am? i would need to check the numbers 1st, but it's pretty. i mean that it's pretty grim. ah, i think we are at a incredibly urgent moment. the extent to which where c urban ization collide with stagnant wages and a lack of affordability is unprecedented. so you have like poor people really struggling now like like never before. 2 but then you also have the middle class unable to afford to live in cities and provide the services that are necessary for a city i. i don't wanna over use the word crisis, but it suggests a crisis. so then we start asking, wait a 2nd, who's going to live in cities? who are cities for? ah, it's not rocket science enough. what do we think people need to have a dignified life? and it's clear that decent housing affordable housing is one of those things. and it's supported by international long. mm hm. kennedy heights. family is just hours away from learning whether or not they can stay in their home or be forced out on the strings. problem. housing is gobbling up more shrinking paychecks. people and 59 out of 102 countries worldwide would need to see their yearly income for at least 10 years in order to buy a house in their country. there are 2 histories we might say that intersect today in that space that we called the city and one of them is a familiar aisha which is so what we have for which we have used the term gentrification. when i hear people today saying it's gentrification, one reaction and ironic reaction is if only it's much deeper, it's in fact it's much more foundational. a fill in even though so then either way of apple and then you know, at all or in the home of an older woman who is being pressured to abandon her home. because it's in the midst of the big new development here. there was a hospital, it's been demolished and it was demolished to make way for condominiums, luxury condominiums, and they don't even own this land. i've heard that there are many units standing vacant already, luxury condos and loss because no one invoke body so can afford to buy and purchase any of these units. so these, the developments are clearly not for the people about how to use them. mm hm. well, you know, a parking lot on a saturday, you don't have anybody then only with on the bus. and i know that you would have a photo husband right now. i can, i don't know, but it ah, well, this is what i see happening around the world buying up of land, the displacement of the poorest people. and the putting up of luxury a unit that are not actually for the people who live in the community. i own a person on the. 2 contact will not be in a contract if i you a 10th or the demo. you know, get a silly ah, most into my nightmare. we've had no heat all through april, no hot water, all through april. there's water leaking underneath the st. new owners and taken over, we haven't met some, we haven't seen them. we don't know anything. it can be frosty. the snowman, for all i know, are trying everything to be sent off. i mean that you what i'm what you want to do. and i'm going to be active, been down, this is where i grew up. and i, you know, i'll be hell bent and balance. i'm going to study here. we go. all right. bye. have a good. thank you very much. yeah. i was way out and maybe not, you know, he'll, when he goes on where i want you to call notting hill cuz i've heard about the feel more a lot about this area is the community. you know, your frames are all face or colors is one with the family because even if he doesn't know each other, we know of a by faith. i was born just 5 minutes from here and in the seventy's and eighty's and seen area change. most of popstars and people moving into the area because they light, the vibe to live is really cool. the people seen the will will feel they come out from all around the world. they want to see where the blue doorways. they want to see this, the, the bookshop, it became very, very trendy places to live. and then the new school ledger center that's going to attract the wealthy people to come down to the area. and then they stop by and not properties only to live there. but you know, because they saw fantastic investment for them bed and put in the bank 2 or 4 stop on the highlight, tour of london to talk receive properties. these 2 properties are worth perhaps 20000000 pounds each. i believe mister paid something in the region of 40 or 50000000 pounds for it. if you could get a whole one of these, it would be 30 or 40000000 pounds and nobody lives here and nothing is happening to this thing. so it's become a dead spot in london. there was, ah news agents, there were pubs, there were a couple of restaurants. but the community itself has evaporated. to leave me 1st off like 94. if i so my fly, i could not live in kids and shall say, i'll be forced out the area. and i'll have to ask for the move out london. i can stand in the middle of the street with empty car parking spaces all around me and no traffic coming. the space is now a bit of a dead. so we very little indication of who the owners are and a lot of them are completely empty. so you, you can't go up and ask them who they are, they're actually just empty all the time. ah, one way of putting it is, this is not at all about housing. ah, that building they function as, as you want those houses to be empty and unused because and you can play with them in these dark empty buildings and they are making money. so when people think of poor investor, something went wrong. hell, know who my 1st reaction to learning about this phenomenon of vacant dwellings. i was pretty outreach. i remain outraged in the human rights framework and through the u. n. system, it's very clear who was accountable states states are responsible, they have international human rights obligations. they sign treaties and they make commitments to the international community that they will uphold international human rights, which include right, adequate housing. ah, you know, that's a real block off a bus to leave and call to my door. and then i open the front door as as a blanket oh, black smoke disclosable. very common thinking of a fire. ah, i'm with you right now is the beginning of the file. we've still been there for 2 hours. that's the beginning. that's when i heard about it. i was in canada and watching it unfold through twitter and then i started getting these details. social housing estate, marginalized community community sat in a very rich, affluent borough allegations as poor housing conditions from before. the fire danasia, an arm of a here come through this man. i can't grab my wife and then another arm. and i was like, come to to kind of grab myself. said, how about my dog, my dog? the officer said no, i'm sorry. we're gonna have to go a so just looked at my dog and i miss an amazing what dogs my let my child is a to you o. b, who could loise hamilton the 2nd, but he chose his own name, given the options need, like louis oak saw his and then we will often to the darkness and then on going down and then on treading on things think oh, there must have the water pipes already in the stairwell, but then the realization now i figured people off on treading on own i'm bodies on treading on something. something this is that is in my way, i was actually quite happy when they put, clad in to make it pretty make it look nicest for the surrounding area. and somebody knew that the dirt on the cheek. there were these elements that seem to be a bit of a global phenomenon where you have a kind of vulnerable community, most of the people in rental working, but they're working poor literally living side by side with incredibly wealthy people. and i credible amount of wealth the tension between the 2 and then watching this fire, it was like a physical representation of the displacement of a community. for me, that's the narrative of the world right now. one of the i heard one of the counselors while the counselor said, if you can't live in knowing he'll day, should newton be milledgeville, was all about to say several other. did you get we'll go from to he's not he would i live there, old a lives. i just didn't want to you like that. me and this will limit make me sick. you want to why brief is mark don't disregard. i'm not there. rubbish. like they that file it has, but as long as like, you know, this is the richest town in the bargain. how can i oh, you have human rights obligations easy and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own. i see why human rights, every single person has a bunch of rights. and then i have a question for you. and that is a, you are legal scholar on human rights. you just, okay. yes. are you have the instrumentality that is the law? exactly. because what i see is those with power board, can they deploy the law in ways that work for their stuff is happening. you know, ah, prices go up in a neighborhood that is fixed. that's when the everybody understands that part. and then they should understand that at that point, another actor might come into the picture, a monster that nobody can see that nobody really understands whose language is incomprehensible. is this what is happening here? ah, i don't believe that capitalism itself is usually problematic. is unbridled capitalism in an area that is a human right? problematic. yes. and i think that's what differentiates housing as a commodity from gold as a commodity. gold is not a human right. housing is ah, so complex since the minute. wow. yes, 7 to one to you. well, the previous landlord, i think c a c, d. i think they did put information up. let us let us know that the bill due to conflicts is going to be sold. but this is before phil phil. phil came it. you know, who is fairfield, i don't know who they are from what i'm told to pay a bill is a subsidiary of um, is it blackstone? right, private equity firm? yes, exactly. they want to raise each each palm and he ran up to like $900.00 each. that is by $900.00 by manage a dollar. and are you going to be able to pay that? i don't know. i mean, i can definitely say next it is, there is no way a way i want to go. i don't have a clue. i don't know. right. and or do you mind me asking, are you employed to say yes. and so what percentage of your income would this be 2590 percent? well 90 asi gallery. yes. 9090 percent. do you consider that affordable for you? let me, i think human rights law hasn't caught up and it worries me that i haven't quite yet found the language. how do we describe it in a way that will make sense resonate and really get at that issue? i'm still looking. i'm looking for that. i feel a little bit desperate about that. okay, so maybe i need to keep talking to the people in the financial field with a title find out. i notice when i came here was refer or a label admitted the opening hours. they throw without and on foot. they are willing to, to me from under this is 3 hours or week um on tuesdays. so every time the appointment is vacant, they thought this renovation, whereby they can increase the rents. wheeler of flea, 50 percent. but these are increased, rents have no connection at all to the actual costs. why this is very, very profitable for them. new finance is very different from the bank. we only bank that's fine. you know, it's sell something. we pay money for. finance is totally different. i always say, find ourselves something, it does not. and that means that finance is basically an extract finance. it's like mining once it has extracted what it needs. it doesn't care what happens with the rest, hulu, the value of all real estate. that functions as an asset is $217.00 trillion dollars. that's more than global g, d, p. of all the countries in the world of all the economies in the world. ah, they're highly camouflaged extractions because they come in the shape of extraordinarily complex instruments that nobody who's not in that business can understand it. so complex that we delegate to the experts who are the experts? is the financial sector itself. mm. oh, for the congolese, a journey to work. order means unimaginable hardship. i prefer to like go the custodial. i've got the captain too. chancing life and live on a dangerous journey through the jungle. i fell on to the rails. i nearly died of our children 8th go to school and live because of the prank. risking at all the democratic 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platforms owned by facebook are starting to get back to normal. having been knocked off line for several hours. millions of people around the world could not access facebook, instagram and the messaging service whatsapp. rosalind jordan has this update from washington dc. the i returned to services for customers. really just, it's just random. some people are getting their instagram back. some people are getting their what's out back. and i think we have to look back at the chief technology officers of.