Rexdale Community Legal Clinic
21 Panorama Court, Suite 24 M9V 4E3 Toronto, ON, Canada

COVID-19 COMMUNITY POP-UP TESTING No appointment needed / No cost If you have any symptoms, or think you may have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, come get tested.... Date and Time: Wednesday, October 14, 11a.m. - 3p.m. Thursday, October 15, 4p.m. - 8p.m. Location: 320 Dixon Road (common room on first floor)

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Organizations across Ontario (including the Rexdale Community Legal Clinic) have published an open letter urging the Ontario government to scrap Bill 184 that will push tenants to the brink of economic eviction. We call on the government to instead take our five recommendations that will address the short- and medium-term consequences of the pandemic crisis on tenants and the rental housing market. 1. Update the purpose of the RTA to include improving public health in Ontario... and recognizing the progressive realization of the human right to housing as enshrined in the federal legislation. 2. Extend the current eviction moratorium until the pandemic and the post-pandemic recovery period are over to ensure enough time for employment rates and other economic indicators to return to pre-COVID-19 levels. While urgent matters with serious health and safety implications continue to be heard, Ontario must commit to keeping people housed. 3. Amend the RTA to provide direction to the LTB for mediated repayment agreements that are feasible and will not push tenants into homelessness or continued poverty. 4. Provide the LTB with direction on providing relief from eviction due to circumstances caused by the pandemic crisis. Tenants that lost their employment, faced illness or had to take care of their children out of school should not be punished because they faced financial hardship during this pandemic. 5. Re-institute effective rent control and alleviate the greatest source of anxiety for tenants even before this pandemic crisis the unaffordable rents that skyrocket every year, displacing people from their homes and communities.