GuelphToday received the following letter to the editor from Aerin Milley Smith urging the community to help identify a local landlord:
Regarding yesterday's article Brant Avenue tenants terrified over looming 'renovictions', I was shocked to read that the landlord is hiding from the tenants and refusing to provide contact information. It was also shocking to read that this appears to be part of a larger pattern (sorry, "business model") for this landlord; buying older rent-controlled buildings and then renovicting vulnerable tenants while hiding from tenants and the Landlord Tenant Board.
How is it possible for this landlord to hide from accountability for this long? Other landlords, developers, and business owners who service rental properties - surely someone does business with this landlord and knows how to contact them.
I urge any Guelph landlords, developers, b2b businesses in the property management space, Mayor Guthrie, and all of council to work their contacts and help these tenants identify their landlord.
Someone in Guelph knows who this landlord is and how to contact them. The rest of Guelph will eventually find out who sat by silently while low-income families and seniors are terrorized with the threat of homelessness during a housing crisis. Please do the right thing and help these tenants now.
Aerin Milley Smith
Guelph
