{"id":53775,"date":"2020-01-28T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=53775"},"modified":"2020-01-28T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:55:08","slug":"tenants-at-toronto-rooming-house-worried-about-eviction-say-they-will-fight-for-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/tenants-at-toronto-rooming-house-worried-about-eviction-say-they-will-fight-for-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenants at Toronto rooming house worried about eviction say they will fight for housing"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tenants at a Toronto rooming house who are concerned about being evicted from their downtown building\u00a0say they plan to keep fighting for a\u00a0roof over their heads.<\/p>\n
Joseph Da Silva, a tenant at the Inglewood Arms, 295 Jarvis St., north of Dundas Street East, told reporters at a news conference on Monday that the tenants are feeling pressured to move out of their units. A\u00a0developer wants to tear down the building and build a 36-storey condo tower on the site.<\/p>\n Da Silva said the tenants want guaranteed places to live in the proposed condo, with rent comparable to what they pay now and compensation for being displaced. The rezoning application by Minto Communities Canada, a real estate company based in Ottawa, has not yet been approved by the city.<\/p>\n “We’re not trying to halt development in the city,” said\u00a0Da Silva, who pays about $925 a month in rent.<\/p>\n “We simply want to want to find our place in the city. We don’t believe that it’s to anybody’s benefit that we be tossed out on the streets,” he said.<\/p>\n “We believe we have something to contribute to the city and that the society will be better with us in it than by excluding us and moving us to the outskirts.”<\/p>\n The Inglewood Arms,\u00a0a licensed rooming house, has about 100 tenants, many of whom are low income and have lived there a long time.<\/p>\n Da Silva, who has lived there\u00a0for more than 10 years, said its tenants\u00a0pay anywhere from $800 to $1,300 a month. He said the building is safe.<\/p>\n “This is our home,” he added. He said the tenants have been told they would be given notice and an organization would help them move to another location.<\/p>\n