REVENGE OF THE RENTER. (cover story)

HUNDREDS OF TENANTS, STRUGGLING TO AFFORD SKYROCKETING RENTS, ARE REFUSING TO PAY THEIR LANDLORDS AT ALL. The group is planning a potentially massive strike to protest proposed provincial legislation that would allow landlords to do away with lease transfers, which allow renters to pass a low-rent lease over to a new tenant. After their landlord, a real-estate investment company called Starlight Investments, told tenants it would only deal with them one-on-one, more than 100 tenants stopped paying rent. WHEN SHARLENE HENRY and her mother first broached the idea of a strike to other tenants, they were faced, unsurprisingly, with several pressing questions: could Dream kick the tenants out?. [Extracted from the article]

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