#tenants — Public Fediverse posts
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#Noise and #Motion #Monitors in Their Homes? These #Tenants Say No.
Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, #Bluetooth signals and motion.
#privacy #security #surveillance #newhampshire #concordhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/noise-monitors-public-housing.html
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#Noise and #Motion #Monitors in Their Homes? These #Tenants Say No.
Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, #Bluetooth signals and motion.
#privacy #security #surveillance #newhampshire #concordhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/noise-monitors-public-housing.html
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#Noise and #Motion #Monitors in Their Homes? These #Tenants Say No.
Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, #Bluetooth signals and motion.
#privacy #security #surveillance #newhampshire #concordhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/noise-monitors-public-housing.html
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#Noise and #Motion #Monitors in Their Homes? These #Tenants Say No.
Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, #Bluetooth signals and motion.
#privacy #security #surveillance #newhampshire #concordhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/noise-monitors-public-housing.html
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#Noise and #Motion #Monitors in Their Homes? These #Tenants Say No.
Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, #Bluetooth signals and motion.
#privacy #security #surveillance #newhampshire #concordhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/noise-monitors-public-housing.html
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@PKYo
That reminds me, I should be writing to various MPs about cottages like those sold off by the #Bridgewater #Canal #Company at #PrestonBrook.The terrace, built in the late 1700s, was sold off one house at a time in the 1950s. They all had brick built privies clustered together in a #communal #yard. Because the remaining #tenants all needed access to the yard the canal company retained ownership and provided an annual licence to each purchaser permitting access to the communal area.
There's no #lease. No #contract on #fees to be charged. The canal company can, it seems, charge what they like both to issue a #licence to a new #buyer of a #cottage and any #annual renewal #fee.
We ought to be able to add some appropriate clauses onto any upcoming #legislation that gives owners of #leasehold #property the #righttobuy such communal ground.
The attached map from 1894 shows the terrace, their privies and how some don't even have space to hang out washing to dry. @ukwaterways
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Right to grow vegetables protected under new bill https://www.allforgardening.com/1716033/right-to-grow-vegetables-protected-under-new-bill/ #Apartment #Associations #condo #garden #gardens #lawmakers #legislature #news #politics #rentals #rights #tenants #Vegetable #vegetables #vermont #wcax
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Advice for #tenants from #warsaw. What to do if your #landlord steals your #deposit ?
https://youtu.be/qQpPdDq2v9A?si=kbM0QP0r5hLkMf1z -
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."
https://macleans.ca/longforms/rent-strikes-canada/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#Toronto #TenantActivism #Canada #HousingMarket #UnaffordableHousing #TenantsRights #CorporateLandlords #Greed
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"Aaron Downey, the national campaign coordinator with the Community Action #Tenants Union (#CATU), says that there can be benefits to tenants from overholding when it comes to negotiating with #landlords.
Some #CorporateLandlords have called off #evictions in the face of substantial opposition, he says." -
There's a retail rental property development industry in LA that I don't see much written about. Developers buy distressed single family homes and replace them on spec with small by-right multifamily units, which they then sell to landlords to exploit. You can spot these because they're for sale rather than for rent. They aren't built by landlords but to sell to landlords.
This isn't exactly gentrification and it's not exactly new. Working class residential areas of LA are filled with these two and three unit structures, some more than a century old. But it's not exactly business as usual either. It runs on the scraps thrown off by the large scale engines of gentrification as they pulverize whole superblocks.
These structures are replacing single family homes, some of which were already rentals but others were owner occupied. The new tenants probably won't be gentrifiers at this stage, but the rents will be higher, which increases property values, which makes better loans possible, which makes more direct gentrification pencil out better, which reinforces the gentrification cycle. The cycle is also reinforced by replacing owners with renters, who are much easier to exploit directly.
I don't have conclusions or solutions, just information. Both of these buildings are on 55th Street between Normandie and Budlong.
#LosAngeles
#Gentrification
#RealEstate
#SingleFamilyHomes
#NormandieAve
#BudlongAve
#55thStreet
#Landlords
#Tenants
#LATU
#TheRentIsTooDamnHigh
