Map of the Week: Eviction

This week's map package looks at eviction applications in the Toronto area:

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Map 1: Applications to evict, Toronto

In Toronto itself, eviction application rates are highest in South Riverdale/Leslieville, followed by the east downtown and Parkdale. Rates are also high in eastern Leslieville, Thorncliffe Park, the Annex and lakeshore Etobicoke.

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Map 2: Applications to evict, GTA

The Cooksville and Port Credit areas have high eviction rates by 905 standards, followed by the south end of Oshawa.

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Map 3: Top addresses for eviction applications

This map looks at the top individual addresses for eviction applications in Toronto.

The pattern of dots tends to follow the rough check-mark shape that we saw in the low-income households map back in October. There are strong clusters centred around Jarvis and Shuter, in Parkdale and Thorncliffe Park.

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Nerd box: This project started with an access-to-information request to the Landlord and Tenant Board, in which I asked for a spreadsheet of landlord- and tenant-side applications for the year to date. The board said it would only release the records if I signed a confidentiality agreement (which of course removes its usefulness), so I appealed to the province's information and privacy office, which persuaded the board to release the records. It's fair to say that this is information that the Landlord and Tenant Board didn't want you to see, though it's not all that clear to me why.

I have two other cases under appeal in the IPC's office, both of which will hopefully become maps here in due course.

Comments

[M. H.]

Very good work!

The Landlord and Tenant Board in Ontario has become a very political and secretive entity since 2003.

[Brian]

The Landlord and Tenant Board needs to make people responsible and not assist people in creating fraud and ripping off Landlords.

It should be a criminal offence to defraud and/or assiting an individual with commiting fraud against a Landlord. Tenants the wonder why the pay higher rents as a result of Landlords getting short changed.

Nice to have rent controls etc. who controls a Landlords costs, utilities, and deadbeat Tenants, damage, and fraudelent payments, bounced cheques etc.

The Tenants should be held accountable and arrested.

Steal a chocolate bar from a store and you get arrested for theft! But rip off a Landlord for 1,000's of dollars and you get off free thanks to the Landlord & Tenant Board!

Only in Canada !!!!

[fp]

we get screwed by the bad tenants and then by the landlord tenant board