Tay Caton

Council votes to speed up renoviction bylaw for Guelph

GuelphToday

This is immensely positive news for current and future renters in Guelph. This bylaw will help keep people in their homes by preventing bad-faith renovictions which are loopholes around rent control. Kudos to all who advocated, including the Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County, Guelph & Wellington Poverty Elimination, Get Involved! Guelph, and The Ward Residents Association.

- Tay Caton

Guelph's city council votes to elect respect

GuelphToday

As important as this is, what’s more important is properly defining “harassment.” Your constituents expressing outrage over your displacement of unhoused constituents through the hastily passed Public Space Use Bylaw, or expressing the urgency of forthcoming motions around renovictions and a vacant home tax is NOT harassment. It’s accountability, which is desperately needed for policymakers in all levels of government.

- Tay Caton

Council votes to speed up renoviction bylaw for Guelph

GuelphToday

I question how this would affect “small landlords,” unless those landlords are renovicting their tenants involuntarily and without cause for the sole purpose of circumventing rent control. If they act in good faith, they won’t be impacted. Renovictions are generally carried out through large-scale or corporate landlords, including the “king of renovictions” Michael Klein who was behind the Brant Ave renoviction notices here in Guelph. Klein is connected to 20+ buildings across Ontario, holding approximately 680 units which have been impacted by his renoviction tactics. (source: ACORN Tenant Union)

- Tay Caton