{"id":6979,"date":"2013-11-29T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/cdn-tenants-forced-apartments-winter-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:08:16","slug":"cdn-tenants-forced-apartments-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/cdn-tenants-forced-apartments-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"CDN tenants forced out of apartments in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjf6qb6z-f5c900bbb26c7826fc821cc929369e61\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjf6qb6z-f5c900bbb26c7826fc821cc929369e61{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjf6qb6z-f5c900bbb26c7826fc821cc929369e61 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjf6qb6z-f5c900bbb26c7826fc821cc929369e61 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjf6qb6z-f5c900bbb26c7826fc821cc929369e61 av-special-heading-h5 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h5 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >CJAD &#8211; November 29, 2013<\/h5><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>(en anglais)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kj948f98-cbc0f62e23316729decec0c101e3b12e '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6977 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad4-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"CJAD News - CDN tenants forced out of apartments in winter\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad4-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad4-1030x605.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad4-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad4-705x414.jpg 705w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad4-450x264.jpg 450w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad4.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Tenants of a Cote-des-Neiges apartment building say they were unfairly evicted by their landlord.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, tenants at 4840 Bourret Street were told they had six months to leave because major work on the building had to be done.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, despite their refusal and without warning, workers started removing the brick and balconies from the building.<\/p>\n<p>With the temperatures dropping, tenants say the building was not livable and they were forced out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6973\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6973\" class=\"wp-image-6973 size-portfolio\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-cjad2-495x400.jpg\" alt=\"CJAD - CDN tenants forced out of apartments in winter\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image: CJAD)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0It\u00a0is so cold without the bricks, I want to know why he is doing this now instead of when it is warm? This makes me think he is not a good person, I have not slept in three months,\u00a0\u00bb Kent John, one of the seven remaining tenants explained.<\/p>\n<p>John says he finally found himself a new apartment, and he will move in on December 1, but rent is $225 more a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Nobody was forced out,\u00a0\u00bb Mr. Haim Elkabas, the landlord, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0All of them left amicably, with compensation, nothing was done illegally, those who left wanted to move before the winter.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The law says a landlord cannot force tenants to leave without going through the rental board, which tenants say he did not do.<\/p>\n<p>Project Genesis, who speaks for the tenants, says the landlord had a similar situation with another building, which he owns, at 5700 Victoria Avenue. That building is now being converted into condos.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Nothing is preventing this situation from happening again, tenants rights are being crushed under a developer&rsquo;s desire for profit,\u00a0\u00bb Sheetal Pathak with Project Genesis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0If this isn&rsquo;t controlled it will become a driving force of gentrification in our neighbourhood.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tina Tenneriello<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2013-1129-www-cjad-com.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJAD &#8211; November 29, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,59],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-6979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","category-nouvelles","tag-droit-au-logement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 03:44:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17021,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions\/17021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}