Our goals are:

  • To organize and encourage the organization of tenants
  • To educate tenants and the general public about issues concerning tenants and housing policy
  • To provide information, resources and assistance to tenants through our hotline, outreach and organizing team and workshops
  • To further the interests of tenants by lobbying and otherwise campaigning for (real) tenant protection laws
  • To promote decent and affordable housing as the right of all Canadians

Activism

We believe we will never win better rights for tenants unless we are all working together and raising our voices. Recent FTMA activism news is below and you can follow the links to the right to get involved.

FMTA 36th Annual General Meeting

Join the FMTA for our 36th Annual General Meeting on May 29th, 2010.

The AGM will be held at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) - 252 Bloor St. W, 2nd floor Room 2-214.

All FMTA AGM's include:

Join the FMTA in making sure the HST doesn't hurt tenants!

The Ontario government has announced plans to ensure landlords can't apply for Above Guideline rent increases because of the HST.  This is good news for tenants, BUT the public has until MAY 27th to comment on proposed changes meaning they could still give in to pressure from landlords.  Check out the attached resource and make sure tenant voices are heard on this issue!

FMTA Joins Public Transit Coalition

The FMTA board recently decided to join the Public Transit Coalition and support the call that:

"that the TTC must be kept public, be properly funded by all levels of Government, and that the Transit City Light Rail plan be completed by 2020."

More information about the Public Transit Coalition can be found at publictransitcoalition.ca.

FMTA Board Responds to Toronto Star Article

Two weeks ago, the FMTA board responded to an article in the Toronto Star where a landlord-group labelled pro-tenant measures related to the HST "unfair."

April 13, 2010

To The Editor
Toronto Star

Re: Landlords call Province's HST Measures Unfair

FMTA Joins Facebook!

The FMTA board put up a facebook fan page for the FMTA!

Become a fan of the FMTA and learn more about our great work and campaigns.

Join our fan page here.

Organizer and Outreach Position - Jobs

 

 

 

 

Services provided by the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations and

funded by the City of Toronto

 

 

Landlord and Tenant Board Telephone Hearings Halted

The FMTA, Advocacy Centre for Tenants of Ontario (ACTO) and the Tenant Duty Counsel Program scored a victory this month when the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) halted telephone hearings in the Southwest region of Ontario.

Reply from the Landlord and Tenant Board

The Chair of the Landlord and Tenant Board replied to our letter expressing concerns about tenant access to justice, and the economic crisis.

To read the letter, click on the Word attachment.

FMTA Advocacy is NOT funded by the city of Toronto.