The Starlight Tenant Union’s first priority is to help tenants like you avoid unlawful evictions.
Housing profiteers like Starlight want frequent turnover so they can reset rents to the maximum the market will suffer. If you have lived in your apartment for more than a year, they want you out.
Alone, you are an easier target. As an empowered tenant who knows their rights - or better yet: a member of a union or association - a housing profiteer like Starlight is much less likely to try to evict or harass you.
Housing profiteers often attempt to drive tenants out via construction harassment: loud, drawn-out, unnecessary renovations designed to generate insufferable noise and discomfort. Regardless of whether the renovations are required or not, tenants are entitled to compensation when an ongoing loss of quiet enjoyment occurs.
If your building is undergoing renovations, or the landlord is failing to maintain to reasonable standards, the Starlight Tenant’s Union is here to help you seek compensation from your province’s tenancy authority.
Becoming part of a tenancy union or association can help you build relationships with your neighbors, share information and evidence, and support each other.
There is strength, security and dignity in knowing you and your neighbors will work together to protect each other if your landlord attempts to violate tenancy laws or harass you out of your home.
Homeowners have more influence with municipal and provincial governments, partly simply because they are more engaged, more likely to show up to city council meetings and voice their opinions. Individually, tenants are much less likely to take action and influence politicians. United and coordinated, our voices can be much stronger and more impactful.
Join the forums, meet your neighbors, get advice:
See if there’s already a union / association in your building or city:
A guide and tools to help you start a union or association:
What you can do to help:
Starlight / Transglobe’s dark history:
Starlight building list and operating names:
Stories of tenants who have taken action:
Current actions (collective disputes, legal, political)
The Starlight Tenant Association exists to to help tenants like you know your rights and form community with your neighbors.
