Scarborough Tenant Support Group and Rooming Houses

city regulations: Sethu, who is 53, estimates that he lived in more than a dozen of them since arriving in Canada from Sri Lanka as a refugee.A member of the Scarborough Tenant Support Group, he one of many advocates who say the dwellings need to be legalized in order to protect low-income tenants from substandard living conditions, according to Toronto Star. There are so many people like me who are in rooming houses, and their rights need to be protected, he said in an interview, speaking through an interpreter. In much of the city, rooming houses are illegal. The city regulations about rooming houses are complicated. Bylaws vary between one part of town and another because the regulations of the pre-amalgamation municipalities were never harmonized. There isn’t even a standard description of what one is, although a working definition is an accommodation in which more than four unrelated people live in separate units while sharing amenities like bathrooms and kitchens. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.