Searching for a Tenant Union Model

ACORN International Canada Organizing Tenants Unions

            Montreal          The global affordable housing crisis largely continues unchecked, with more people looking and fewer finding, as prices rise and access decreases.  Developers rush to build high-end luxury properties and demand extensive incentives and subsidies for affordable complexes. dampening supply.  With real estate interests often virtually owning politicians, tenants struggle to get protections.  Organizing …

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Pigeons, AGIs, Rent Caps, and More

Canada

            Montreal          Listening to the reports from all of the offices around Canada where ACORN Canada is organizing is always a treat in their Year End / Year Begin meeting.  Every year it seems there are more unusual issues, as well as dramatic progress on longtime campaigns, as the organization and its successes spread around …

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The Canadian Twist to the Adani Scandal

Canada Financial Justice

Montreal          The outlines of the scandal engulfing the Adani group companies continues to reverberate, and does so nowhere more than in the Canadian province of Quebec.  The US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have indicted Gautam Adani and his son, alleging a $270-million bribe involving their huge solar contract in India.  …

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