Ottawa: Evicted Heron Gate residents file human rights complaint over landlord's 'hyper-gentrification' .
OTTAWA - Fourteen former tenants of Heron Gate Village have launched a human rights complaint about their eviction, claiming the landlord forced them out of their racialized and immigrant community in a “hyper-gentrification” of the area in order to build high-income housing for white residents.
".....“The mass, forced displacement of an entire community of immigrants, people of colour, families, and people receiving public assistance amounts to systemic discrimination,” the application says."
"....The Applicants ask the Tribunal to determine whether a landlord has the right to displace a large group of residents of a low-income, family-oriented, racialized and immigrant community in order to create a predominantly affluent, adult-oriented, white and non-immigrant community in its stead.”
….Most of Heron Gate was built in the 1960s (Confusingly, in the city neighbourhood known as Herongate) and by the 1990s had begun to attract tenants from the influx of Somali immigrants displaced by civil war. The application describes the growth of the Herongate neighbourhood as affordable and “welcoming and familiar to new Canadians.” More than 90 per cent of the evicted Heron Gate residents were people of colour.
https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2019/...int_over_landlord_s_hyper_gentrification.aspx
OTTAWA - Fourteen former tenants of Heron Gate Village have launched a human rights complaint about their eviction, claiming the landlord forced them out of their racialized and immigrant community in a “hyper-gentrification” of the area in order to build high-income housing for white residents.
".....“The mass, forced displacement of an entire community of immigrants, people of colour, families, and people receiving public assistance amounts to systemic discrimination,” the application says."
"....The Applicants ask the Tribunal to determine whether a landlord has the right to displace a large group of residents of a low-income, family-oriented, racialized and immigrant community in order to create a predominantly affluent, adult-oriented, white and non-immigrant community in its stead.”
….Most of Heron Gate was built in the 1960s (Confusingly, in the city neighbourhood known as Herongate) and by the 1990s had begun to attract tenants from the influx of Somali immigrants displaced by civil war. The application describes the growth of the Herongate neighbourhood as affordable and “welcoming and familiar to new Canadians.” More than 90 per cent of the evicted Heron Gate residents were people of colour.
https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2019/...int_over_landlord_s_hyper_gentrification.aspx
