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RSS FeedsNo hotels past November for displaced residents of 650 Parliament St.
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15 november 2018 23:46:42

 
No hotels past November for displaced residents of 650 Parliament St.
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The management of a Toronto apartment building that was ravaged by fire last summer says it will stop paying hotel bills for its displaced tenants at the end of this month.In a letter posted to Twitter on Wednesday evening, the management of 650 Parliament St. said it will continue to provide assistance “to those who locate comparable accommodations, but we cannot continue the cost of providing hotel accommodation after Nov. 30, 2018.”Building resident Mark Slapinski, who is now staying at a Holiday Inn with about 100 other tenants, said the announcement caught him and many others off guard.“I’m still in shock right now. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it,” said Slapinski, a social media student at Seneca College, who created and runs the Facebook page Displaced Residents of 650 Parliament and a Twitter account with the same name.Slapinski, who lived in the building for eight years, said he’s not sure where he’ll go next, but he plans to meet with other tenants, a law firm and activist groups such as ACORN to stage a protest and figure out his options.ACORN protested with tenants in early November when building management ordered some residents displaced by the six-alarm fire to resume paying their original rent.Mayor John Tory said Thursday morning that he had tried to call the owners of the Parliament St. building to urge them to house everyone left homeless by the fire.“These residents are homeless through no fault of their own,” Tory said. “I’m not blaming the landlord for the fact there was a fire but ... they have insurance to cover it and they are the landlord. “In the absence of people being able to provide these people their apartments, I would expect that they will do everything they can — which I think they largely have been doing in recent months — to make sure these people are being looked after,” he said, adding, “I’ll be pursuing this over ...


 
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