About 200 residents of a west-end Toronto highrise have decided to stop paying rent in protest of above-guideline rent increases at their building, says their tenant association.
Beverley Henry, who has lived at 33 King St. for close to a decade, is one of the tenants involved.
She says by September, her rent could be 40 per cent higher than it was when she moved into the building near Lawrence Avenue West and Weston Road.
As a senior on a fixed income, Henry worries she might end up on the street.
“If the rent keeps going [up] I cannot afford to live here. And I mean, there
