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ACORN:
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Canada is an independent national organization of low- and moderate-income families. Toronto ACORN was founded in 2004, with the first organized group in Canada being formed in Weston / Mt Dennis after tenants took their slum-lord to task and won $250,000 in rent abatements. In the next ten years Toronto ACORN spread to every part of the city leading the fight and winning significant victories including raising the minimum wage; strengthening of the enforcement of apartment building standards; regulating the payday loan industry in Canada; and countless improvements in our neighbourhoods.
In the next year we plan to fight for a new Residential Tenancy Act; to turn up the heat on predatory lenders that sell consolidation loans; to continue our fight to get the city of Toronto to license all landlords in the city; and to keep the pressure on to close the digital divide.
- Phone: 416-461-9233
- Website
ACTO:
The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) is a specialty community legal clinic with a provincial mandate to advance and protect the interests of low-income tenants. We specialize in housing issues related to tenants in Ontario.
ACTO is a non-partisan and non-governmental advocacy organization. Our client community includes a broad range of people living on low incomes who do not own their homes including residential tenants, members of non-profit housing co-operatives, homeless people and those who rent homes not subject to the Residential Tenancies Act.
Bread and Bricks Davenport West Social Justice Group:
We envision a vibrant and healthy neighbourhood, with a civically engaged community organized around principles of inclusion, equity, and social justice.
Build a Better Bloor Dufferin:
Build a Better Bloor Dufferin (BBBD) is a group of residents, local business owners, artists, service organizations, and members of the local school communities dedicated to the sustainable development of the Bloor Dufferin neighbourhood as it changes with the proposed new development at the southwest corner of Bloor and Dufferin.
CERA:
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) is one of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit charities working to advance the right to adequate housing. Founded in 1987 by a small group of Ontarians who were deeply concerned about discrimination in housing, CERA has worked tirelessly for over thirty years at the intersection of human rights and housing and is one of Canada’s leading NGOs working in the area of social and economic rights.
- Phone: 416-944-0087
- Toll-free: 1-800-263-1139
- Website
CP Planning:
CP Planning practices a human rights approach to community planning. Through this approach, we have engaged hundreds of residents and maintain community relationships to development planning policy recommendations and programs in support of affordable housing, justice orientated urban agriculture, and accessible cultural spaces. Our work is supported by our specialization in connecting non-profits, community groups, & development industries to ensure all industries are coordinated in the prioritization of the health and well being of the most marginalized communities.
Encampment Support Network Toronto:
We need to take care of each other. Donate, volunteer, decommodify housing. Not an agency & find it troubling we’re providing water when the city should be.
Keep Your Rent:
FMTA:
The Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations (FMTA) is a non-profit organization which advocates for better rights for tenants. Founded in 1974, we are the oldest and largest Tenant Federation in Canada. The FMTA is comprised of affiliated Tenant Associations and of individual members. We have over 3,000 members and continue to grow.
- Phone: 416-646-1772
- Website
- Contact
Friends of Kensington Market:
Friends of Kensington Market (FOKM) is a group of citizens who love Kensington Market and want to preserve its unique character and place in the fabric of the city. FOKM advocates on a number of housing issues including community land trusts and the prohibition of short-term rentals.
Homeless Hub:
The Homeless Hub is a web-based research library and information centre representing an innovative step forward in the use of technology to enhance knowledge mobilization and networking.
Housing Action Now!:
Housing Action Now is a Toronto coalition of community organizations and individuals providing leadership to improve housing and homelessness policies and programs in Toronto. We aim to work with all parties involved in Toronto’s housing and homelessness sectors to implement solutions to Toronto’s affordable housing crisis.
LAHAAG:
Lakeshore Affordable Housing Advocacy & Action Group (LAHAAG): Advocating for deeply affordable housing in South Etobicoke, Toronto.
LAMP:
A leader in promoting and advocating for physical, mental and social well-being through inclusive, integrated community programs and health care services.
Primary areas of advocacy focus include: Food Security and Nutrition; Affordable and Decent Housing; Community Planning; Poverty Reduction; Environmental Issues; Civic Engagement; Accessible Recreation; Community Economic Development; Lifestyle and Behaviour Change.
- Phone: 416-252-6471
OCAP:
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is a direct-action based anti-poverty organization formed in 1990. In addition to mobilizing people in resistance to government and corporate policies responsible for widespread immiseration and destitution, we also fight alongside individuals navigating social assistance, public housing and other bureaucracies, doing direct action casework to ensure people aren’t denied basic entitlements.
- Phone: 416-925-6939
Parkdale Organize:
Parkdale Organize is a membership-based group of working class people who organize to build neighbourhood power in Parkdale. Where landlords, bosses, or the state exploit or abuse us, we organize to defend, inform, educate and empower our neighbours to collectively improve our conditions. We want to build working class organizations independent of politicians and social service providers.
We join with our neighbours to fight displacement, rent increases, and disrepair. We work with parents and caregivers to provide a better environment for our families and youth. We support the struggles of workers in our neighbourhood against abusive and exploitative bosses. When working class people in Parkdale struggle, we have their backs.
- Phone: 647-874-8793
- Website
PNLT:
Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (PNLT) is a community land trust in Parkdale led by a group of residents and organizations trying to protect the social, cultural and economic diversity of Parkdale by redefining how land is used and developed.
Through the community land trust model, PNLT will acquire land and use it to meet the needs of Parkdale by leasing it to non-profit partners who can provide affordable housing, furnish spaces for social enterprises and non-profit organizations, and offer urban agriculture and open space. Also, PNLT promotes community participation in guiding how land is used to benefit the community and keep Parkdale affordable and diverse.
R2HTO:
The Right to Housing in Toronto (R2HTO) is a network of individuals and organizational supporters that are working to ensure that the City of Toronto takes a rights-based approach to its housing planning and policy.
The work of R2HTO is guided by a Steering Committee that consists of ACORN Canada, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO), Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), Emily Paradis (Maytree Fellow, Housing and Homelessness Researcher), Federation of Metro Tenants’ Association (FMTA), Joy Connelly (Housing Advocate), and Maytree.
SHJN:
The Shelter and Housing Justice Network (SHJN) is a collective of homelessness and housing advocates, shelter providers, healthcare professionals, faith leaders, legal workers, and researchers who have come together to address the issue of homelessness in Canada on a local, provincial, and national level.
Wellesley Institute:
The Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
Vision: A healthier and more equitable Greater Toronto Area for all.
Mission: Advance population health and reduce health inequities by driving change on the social determinants of health through applied research, effective policy solutions, knowledge mobilization, and innovation.