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  1. Following mixed feedback and extended discussions, City Council voted to prohibit the use of Ratio Utility Billing Systems (RUBS), in which tenants in a multi-unit complex can be billed flat rates for utilities rather than by exact usage. Ken Der has the details. alamedapost.com/news/council-b

    #AffordableHousing #alameda #AlamedaMarinaMasterPlan #CityCouncil #GregBoller #landlords #MarilynEzzyAshcraft #MichelePryor #renters #tenants #TonyDaysog #TracyJensen #utilities

  2. From @joannechocolat

    Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips (1866-1948) was an American game designer, #inventor, feminist, and writer. She invented The Landlord's Game, the direct precursor to #Monopoly, although she was never credited for this during her lifetime.

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    Personal note: she said “the object of the game is not only to afford amusement to the players, but to illustrate to them how under the present or prevailing system of land tenure, the landlord has an advantage over other enterprises and also how the single tax would discourage land speculation.”

    She was a proponent of #Georgism, a single tax movement widely popularized by charismatic politician Henry George through his first book, Progress and Poverty - an economic ideology that government should be funded by a tax on land rent (wealthy landlords) & not by taxes on labour.

    He might have been on to something! 🧐 Can we have this now? Please? 🙏

    #CelebratingWomen #BoardGames #Henry_George #Landlords #Taxes #Elizabeth_J._Magie_Phillips

  3. #GreenParty spokesperson said the property’s inhabitants still back their party. “The landlord put it up, yet the tenants have Green posters in the window. It’s a sign of the state of politics now – Labour prioritises #landlords & Greens prioritise #tenants www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/excl-l...

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  4. Formerly, when housing stock was in the control of the local authority, you could make FoI requests for important documents regarding your home. However, that right didn't follow when our homes were transferred to RSLs. Please consider signing and sharing this petition to restore that right. petition.parliament.uk/petitio
    #petitions #parliament #housing #SocialHousing #landlords #tenantRights #TenantOrganizing #leasehold #housing #housingPolicy #housingCrsis #ukpolitics #FoI #FreedomOfInformation

  5. CW: Mental health, struggling, renting

    1) I’ve been struggling these last few months, hence not really being on here so much. I’m not sure what would happen if I didn’t have the kids. It’s so hard to see the point in anything.

    Cont…

    #Depression #Anxiety #ADHD #AuDHD #Autistic #UKRenting #Damp #Landlords #LettingAgents #Fibromyalgia #CFS #CFSME #ChronicFatigue #Diabetic #OAB #IBS #NoSupport #Lonely #SingleParent #Overwhelmed

  6. Revenge of the #Renter

    Hundreds of #tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their #landlords at all. They call it a #RentStrike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing #ClassWar

    Jason McBride November 9, 2023

    "33 King was an inexpensive, aging highrise, but it was a bastion of affordability in a city that seemed to grow more expensive every year. In 2010, the couple moved into a two-bedroom apartment on the top floor that rented for less than $1,000. Two years later they had their first child, Xavier. [Their rent initially was $700 a month. It has more than doubled!]

    "Then, in 2013, the landlord, a company called Realstar, informed Henry that her rent was going up that year by 5.5 per cent. She was confused. 33 King was rent-controlled—increases were capped in 2013 at 2.5 per cent. But there was a loophole: in Ontario, landlords can apply for what’s called an above guideline increase, or #AGI, to make major repairs. Realstar fixed the roof and elevators that year, so Henry thought it might be a one-off. When it happened again the next year, with an increase of 3.8 per cent, well above that year’s 0.8 per cent guideline, she and her neighbours were incensed. They’d long talked about deteriorating conditions in the building and regular maintenance that seemed to go undone. Some felt the AGIs were simply a way for #Realstar to boost the value of its asset by squeezing extra money out of its tenants.

    "In 2017, Henry started working on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Brampton, and became a member of Unifor. It was the first time she’d joined a union, and it was exciting to be part of a group of people banding together to fight for their rights. Energized by that experience, in 2018, she helped form a tenants’ association at 33 King to fight future AGIs. Still, they kept coming—in 2018, 2019 and 2021.

    That year, a company called #DreamUnlimited, a #realestate giant with $23 billion worth of assets, bought 33 King. Because the 2019 and 2021 AGIs were still pending approval by Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board, or LTB, Dream inherited the applications. Henry and other tenants wasted no time making their feelings about them known to the new owners. Working with the York South-Weston #TenantUnion, or YSWTU—an umbrella organization for 13 tenants’ associations in the area—they staged protests, called Dream’s president, Michael Cooper, and went to the media in a bid to have the AGIs cancelled.

    "The movement hasn’t come without consequences. Dream has initiated eviction proceedings for more than 70 tenants at 33 King, and Starlight has started them for 75 in Thorncliffe Park. More are likely to come, but the strikers have remained resolute, the fear of losing their homes outweighed by the impossibility of continuing the status quo.

    "Their fights are just beginning. Tenant #activism is flaring across the country as renters face skyrocketing rents and deteriorating living conditions in the most brutal #housing market in memory. Whatever their outcome, the Toronto rent strikes are the latest, loudest volley in a brewing class war."

    macleans.ca/longforms/rent-str

    #Toronto #TenantActivism #Canada #HousingMarket #UnaffordableHousing #TenantsRights #CorporateLandlords #Greed