Massive landlord plans to take back apartment donated to help feed tenants in Toronto
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A group of tenants at 103 and 105 West Lodge Ave. in Parkdale have been running a food bank out of an empty unit in their building for several months now in support of residents experiencing food insecurity, but landlord Hazelview Properties recently told tenants they must shut it down by June 7.
Tentants first started running the food bank out of the building s lobby last fall, and they later moved the initiative outside due to rising COVID-19 cases.
Toronto residents get their massive landlord to donate an apartment to help feed tenants
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An group of tenants has managed to get one of the city s biggest landlords to give them a free apartment to help distribute food to those in need, many of whom are fell0w residents in the large west-end complex.
The tenant-run West Lodge Food Bank has finally secured one of the 200 empty units in their building at 103-105 West Lodge Ave, free of cost, after having simply taken it over for six weeks.
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Toronto tenants start food bank to help out struggling neighbours
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Many tenants throughout Toronto have been struggling to get by over the past nine months as a result of financial difficulties created and exacerbated by the pandemic, and that s why residents of one Parkdale building decided to create their own food bank to help out their neighbours in these difficult times. We knew Parkdale had been hit hard with job losses. Back in the summer, as part of our outreach to expand the organizing, we did some tabling in the neighbourhood where we gave away food, as well as information about tenant organizing, said Hodgson.