Two sisters were shocked when a Toronto landlord raised their rent by $7,000 per month.

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.

  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year 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)