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Half of Vienna lives in lovely, subsidized homes. Rents are low. And these buildings fight climate change. Meet green social housing: climate policy you can touch. NPR's great new story & Climate & Community Institute's new research show how it works in Vienna, could work here 🧵

"In 2020, Canada’s biggest financial firms purchased 90% of available rental stock in TO." Now, US private equity is set to add 21K units w/o rent control. BSH researchers Nemoy Lewis & Martine August unpack what this means for affordability & tenant security buff.ly/2YzVsAE

Sometimes I feel like a broken record and I guess I kind of am? Lol. Here’s a thread from 2019 about Starlight, the same company I’ve been tweeting about today. At the time, landlords predicted they’d be able to raise rents from ~1200/m to ~1500/m.

Starlight’s lawyers are objecting to Starlight’s own white paper outlining its “repositioning” strategy being discussed in these proceedings. This is the white paper

Do you know who is actually 'coming hat in hand' for government handouts from Doug Ford? Therme. Shoppers Drug Mart. 7-11. Staples. The De Gasperis family. Greenbelt developers. PricewaterhouseCoopers.

New data shows the populations of BC, Ontario, and Quebec declined by 9,000 people in the first quarter of 2025 due to anti-immigrant policies. I'm assuming that means the homeless population has declined by 9,000 as well since housing is about "supply and demand" - right? Right?

I join my fellow UN experts to condemn the Israeli attack on Iran and call for an end to hostilities. Now!

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children. Call it what it is: GENOCIDE.

Israel has written one of the darkest pages in the history of genocide.

Prior to last week's group eviction hearing where we raised collective issues we have faced since PSP Investments and Starlight acquired our buildings, there were negotiations that broke down. This is the landlords' final offer to tenants, and why negotiations broke down. (1/7)

Since Starlight and PSP Investments acquired our buildings we have faced frequent day-long, building-wide water shut downs. No water to cook with, bathe, drink, or flush the toilet. Our landlords’ response during the eviction hearing: “Got a bathtub?” thestar.com/news/gta/more-…

Canada’s largest landlord, currently pursuing mass evictions in Thorncliffe Park, continues to hoover up existing apartment buildings, with CIBC renx.ca/starlight-cibc…

From Sunday to Tuesday there were recurring power outages at 71 Thorncliffe Park. Tenants could not cool our apartments during the heat wave. Today, the power is shut down for a previously planned outage. These issues didn’t exist before Starlight and PSP Investments took over.

Diabolical. The pension fund for federal public sector workers is shutting down people’s A/C in this heat wave. Here is their board of directors: investpsp.com/en/psp/board/ Here are their executives: investpsp.com/en/psp/senior-…

Canada commits to $150 BILLION/year to buy weapons. ~9 TIMES the annual budget of its largest city - Toronto. This global military build up will result in certain war & an even more engorged billionaire class of arms producers. We fight for peace now or die for their profit

When a planned massacre happens at all hours of the day, 24-7, for months, years, it's not a mere massacre. It is genocide. The textbook case of genocide. And it is on our conscience. Each and every one of us, whatever our beliefs, are weighed down by it. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE. Please share! ohchr.org/en/documents/c…

The report names arms manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo for supplying weapons used in Gaza; Caterpillar and HD Hyundai for machinery used to destroy Palestinian property; and tech giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM as central to Israel’s surveillance system and

“[B]ursts of gunfire erupt close by, at least 15 shots. “Whoo! Whoo!” one contractor yelps. “I think you hit one,” one says. Then comes a shout: “Hell, yeah, boy!”