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Keep Your Rent Poster: 'Didn't Pay Your Rent? What Comes Next?"

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Keep Your Rent Poster: 'Didn't Pay Your Rent? What Comes Next?"

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A flyer/poster stapled to an electrical/telephone pole at the corner of McArthur Avenue and the Vanier Parkway, next to a now well known mural in support of frontline workers and across the street from a large grocery store. The area around this pole hosts several apartment tours and the Vanier neighbourhood has a reputation as an area which, in some part, hosts numerous impoverished individuals. The poster is promoting the movement for non payment of rent if circumstances are such that it is impossible during the pandemic, and the prevention of eviction during the pandemic. This is a contensious issue; there are those who feel landlords are profiting from misery and the basic need for shelter while others do not feel depriving landlords of income is the answer and that the renting of properties is a perfectly legitimate method of earning a living.
The sign reads "DIDN'T PAY YOUR RENT?/ WHAT COMES NEXT?/ Jobs lost./ Hours cut./ Bills to pay./ Families to feed./ CONNECT WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS" followed by several different contacts

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photograph

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English
English
English
English

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Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

housing
keepyourrent
economy

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

05/28/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

7 June 2020
06/07/2020

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This item was submitted on May 28, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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