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'This is egregious': Sisters shocked when Toronto landlord raises rent to $9,500 a month (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The landlord had told them he wanted to raise the rent to $3,500 and when they complained he decided to raise it to $9,500.

“We know that our building is not rent controlled and this was something we were always worried about happening and there is no way we can afford $9,500 per month," Yumna Farooq said.

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[-] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago

Most conservatives are middle class small business owners and landlords, this is why they are always supportive of "small government" it's just a dog whistle for unregulated market.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I saw a documentary that spoke to some Twump (sic) supporters who lived in a shithole building that they didn't realize was owned by the Kushners. I can't recall anything else about it that might help identify it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They're not generally cartoonish evil, I'm sure they agree that some tenant protections against sudden eviction are a good thing, and allowing unlimited rent hikes completely obliterates all that.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

They're not generally cartoonish evil

You really need to look at how they're talking on landlord forums and such, the way they speak about tenants. Reality will remove this naive idea from your mind.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I agree they are not cartoonishly evil, in so far as that a cartoon villain usually is thwarted by good through the power of friendship. Real villains don't have such opposition.

[-] ZodiacSF1969 5 points 10 months ago

I hope you are tipping your landlord 20%

Sent from my iPhone

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

From my experience most people don't care until they're inconvenienced in some way, so they won't have an opinion on it so they wait until someone they rely on and trust to tell them how they should feel. I think we all know which entertainment network is going to tell them all about why rent control is ruining Canada/America.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I read a study that showed they’d rather hurt themselves than help others, even if helping others helped themselves as well, directly or indirectly. It tracks, frankly

[-] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

this is why they are always supportive of “small government” it’s just a dog whistle for unregulated market.

A "dog whistle" is something disguising the true message, while there's no attempt to hide it here.

(I am in support of an unregulated market, but also of trade unions and consumer unions and anarcho-syndicalism, which are natural parts of it)

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