02-04-2019 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com

Evicted Heron Gate residents file human rights complaint over landlord's 'hyper-gentrification'

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 application was made Monday with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and claims the landlord, Timbercreek, is discriminatory in its plan for the property and that the City of Ottawa, which is also n
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