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see how are people faring with respect to the right to housing. but maybe you could tell me a bit about how you came to meeting to have around strike. was for me personally, i have a most problem. i have a cockroach problem. i got things that need to be repaired in the building. they were all services. they run you around the circles, they frustrate you, you get that off. you just one of the, but where we can go the rent situation all over toronto the same way. it's a victim by another name. and have you had any response from that cap yet? i guess it's wrapped up to the bar headed side on her side, on the balcony about the red stripe and they threatened to victor. i'm giving you this notice because i want to end your tendency. i want you to move out of your rental unit by such and such date reason. i believe that you or someone living with you have committed an illegal act and fix a series of ality on my for legal action,

drug. my name africa with arden arden categories. eric yeah. so this was based on the banner you know, we're not that melting room or anything just that may 1st rent strike. they own $900.00 buildings in the area and that's their plan for all the buildings. is to give people like our neighborhoods getting gentrified, familiar with liberty village is moving, come right up to king endeavor and this is only one direction into our neighbor. and we are in the way ah,

[000:00:00;00] ah ah, i only know said or go. so that church did you go directly to the chart in the greater toronto area, for example, in the last 30 years, housing prices have increased by 425 percent. whereas in a similar 30 year period, average family income has only grown by 133 percent. so something else is in play and really it's not the economic fundamentals, as you can see from the about graph. so are you going to send us around or what?

no, i don't know. i would need to check the numbers 1st, but it's pretty. i mean that it's pretty grim. ah, i think we are at a incredibly urgent moment. the extent to which we're seeing urban invasion, collide with stagnant wages and a lack of affordability is unprecedented. so you have like poor people really struggling now like like never before. but then you also have the middle class unable to afford to live in cities and provide the services that are necessary for him. i don't want to over use the word crisis, but it suggests a crisis. so then we start asking, wait a 2nd, who's going to live in cities?

who are cities for, ah, it's not rocket science, you know? why do we think people need to have a dignified life? and it's clear that decent housing affordable housing is one of those things. i and it's supported by international law. i. kennedy, high family is just hours away from learning whether or not they can stay in their home or be forced out on the street. the problem housing is gobbling up more shrinking paychecks. people and $59.00 out of $100.00. and 2 countries worldwide would need to see their yearly income for at least 10 years in order to buy

a house in their country or to histories. we might say that intersect today in that space that we call to city and one of them is familiar issue, which is what we have for which we have use the term gentrification. when i hear people today saying it's gentrification, one reaction and ironic reaction is if only it's much deeper, it's much more foundation the 3rd. okay. so then either north, 2nd pizza. i didn't you know now i'm sorry we're in the home of an older woman. oh, is being pressured to have them in her home because in the midst of the big new

development here, there was a hospital, it's been demolished and it was demolished to make way for condominium luxury condominiums and they don't even own the land. ah, i've heard that there are many units standing vacant already, luxury condos and loss because no one and you can afford to buy and purchase any of these units. so the developments are clearly not for the people about me. around the nissan. you don't know, you might on, you know, somebody will build on a family, you know, cutting the living a man. he let me send you one other photo had been denied him. i don't know. i don't know,

but they told me, well this is what i'm seeing happening around the world, the buying up of land, the displacement of the chorus people and the putting up of luxury news that are not actually for the people who live in the community. ah, you don't have to go without a. 2 contract for no be in to contract. if you need further from me you could do most of my nightmare. we've had no heat all through. april no hot water. april. there's water leaking underneath the new owners and taken over and we haven't met them. we haven't seen them,

we don't know anything. it could be frosty the snowman for they're trying everything to you and i'm which of the, the main, danny? this is where i grew up. and, you know, i'll be hell bent balance. i'm going to study here. we go. all right, i have fun. i thank you very much. i was very proud to live in notting hill when you go somewhere wanting to call notting hill,

sort of the film or whatever. i think that's about this areas is the community your friends are faced or colors on what i need from me because even if we don't know if we know by faith not born just 5 minutes in the seventy's and 890000 seen whole area change of popstars and people moving into the area because they light the vibe. the move is really cool. the people seen the will, the film that come out from all around the world, they want to see where the blue doorways. they want to see this, the, the bookshop, it became very, very trendy places to live and then the new school

and the leisure that's going to attract the wealthy people to come down to the area . and then they stop buying up properties to live there. but you know, because this invest for them and then put it in the bank stopped on the highlight to london to talk to see properties. these 2 properties are worth perhaps 20000000 pounds each. i believe paid funding in the region. 1450000000 pounds. ford. if you could get a whole one of these, it would be 30 or 40000000 pounds and nobody lives here and nothing is happening to this thing. so it's become a dead spot. in london, there was use agents, there were pubs, there were a couple of restaurants, but the community itself has evaporated. so we,

we pass off like $94.00. if i so my i could not live in kids in south sea. i'd be forced out the area and i'd have to actually probably move out of london. i could stand in the middle of the street with and to car parking spaces all around me and no traffic coming. the space is now a bit of a dead cell. we very little indication of who the owners are and a lot of them are completely empty so you can go can ask them who they are. they're actually just empty all the time. ah, one way of putting this is not at all. ah,

building the function you want those houses to be empty and unused because you can play with them. these dark empty buildings and they are making money. so when people think of poor investors, something went wrong. hell know, oh my 1st reaction to learning about this phenomenon, a vacant dwelling. i was pretty outreach. i remain outraged in a human rights framework and through the us system is very clear. who is accountable dates are responsible, they have international human rights obligations. they sign treaties and they make commitments to the international community that they will uphold international

human rights, which include the right adequate housing can we call them my door? and then i open the front door as as a blank black smoke. i'll just close the door, very calmly thinking it's a fire. i was talking and that was the beginning. when do we need for 2 hours? that's the beginning. that's me. ah, ah,

when i heard about it, i was in canada and watching it unfold through twitter and then i started getting these details. ah, social housing estate. marginalized community community that in a very rich, affluent burrow allegations of poor housing condition from before the fire. i see and hear come food a month, can grant my wife and then another. and that was my come to to kind of grant myself, haven't my dog, my dog? the officer said no, i'm sorry. we're going to have to go. so just look to my dog and yes, and i made those my like my child is

a 2 year old be who called louis hamilton the 2nd, but he chose his own name, gives him the options need like louis. so he's and then we will off into the darkness and then on going down and then on trading on things that must have the water pipes already in the stairwell. but then the realization, know i figured people on the, on trading on own bodies, on trading on something, something is, is, is in my way, i was actually quite happy when they tried to make it pretty make it look nice this

for the surrounding area and somebody knew that on the cheap there were these elements that seem to be a bit of a global phenomenon where you have a kind of vulnerable community, most of the people in rental working, but they're working poor, literally living side by side with incredibly wealthy people. and my credible amount of wealth, the tension between the 2 and then watching this fire, it was like a physical representation of the displacement of a community. for me, that's the narrative of the world right now. one of the, one of the counselors accounts is that if you can't leave no inhibitor, you should be able to say something like that. you get one of them. so you thought

he would leave the order lived. i just mean like she'd like that will limit make me sick to my disregard. i'm not there. rubbish. like dave that it does, but it's kind of like, you know, this is richard town in about how can that happen? oh, you have a human rights obligation and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own. i see why human rights every single person has a bunch of right. and then i have a question for you. and that is, are you a legal scholar on human rights? you? ok. you have the instrumentality. that is the law. exactly. because when i see those with power, boy, can they deploy the law in ways that work for them? stuff is happening. you know?

oh, prices go off in a neighborhood. that's one thing everybody understands. and then they should understand that at that point, another factor might come into the picture, a monster that nobody can see that nobody really understands whose language is a comprehensive what is happening here. ah, i don't believe that capitalism itself is hugely problematic. is unbridled capitalism in an area that is a human right. problematic. yeah. and i think that's what differentiate housing as a commodity from gold as a commodity. gold is not

a human right. housing is the compliment. wow. wow, the previous landlords. i think we'll see you soon. the i think they did put information up let, let us know that the build, the conflicts is going to be sold. but this is before phil. phil office came in. you know, who is fairfield? i don't know who they are from what i'm told. phil is a subsidiary of a black stone. right. private equity firm? yes, exactly. they want to raise each each apartment. he went up to like $900.00 each. that is by $900.00 by manager. and are you going to be able to pay that? i don't know. i mean, i can definitely say next year it is, is no way i want to go. i don't have, i don't know. right. and do you mind me asking,

are you employed just saying yes. and so what percentage of your income would this be 25 percent 90? 8 or 8? yes. 990 percent. do you consider that affordable for you? oh, i think human rights law hasn't caught up and it worries me that i haven't quite yet found the language. how do we describe it in a way that will make sense resonate and really get at that issue. i'm still looking . i'm looking for that. i feel a little bit desperate about that. i to maybe keep talking to the people in the financial feels the 1st time to find out. i notice when i came here i lived admitted the opening hours. they show without attendance that they are waiting to to meet on monday. they said 3 hours per week on tuesday. so every time an apartment is

vacant, they start at least renovation, whereby they can increase the rent or flee 50 percent. but the increase the rent have no connection at all to the actual cost. why this is very, very profitable for them. me to the bank. we only bank sell something. we pay money for finance is totally different. i always say finance. so something it does not and that means that finance is basically an extract effect finance. it's like mining once it has extracted what it needs, it doesn't care what happens with arrest. the

me, the value of all real estate, that functions as an asset is $217.00 trillion dollars. that's more than global g, d, p of all the countries in the world of all the economies in the world i, they're highly kind of flashed extractions because they come in the shape of extraordinarily complex instruments, but nobody who is not in the business can understand it. so complex that we delegate to the experts who are the expert, is the financial sector itself. this

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paris. nicholas because he wasn't actually in the court here in paris to hear the