A 57-unit apartment building in Scarborough had only seen two eviction applications over the course of nine years under the ownership of one landlord.
Then in 2018, Starlight Investments purchased the building and, in just over a year, filed 29 eviction applications — increasing the rate of filings more than 10,000 per cent, a recent study revealed.
Starlight Investments “is, in some ways, leading the charge” in transforming multi-family housing stock, said Martine August, a professor of planning in Waterloo’s faculty of environment and the co-author of a recent study on Toronto landlords’ behaviour around eviction.
Would this be getting the same attention if the land of the Mosqueteria was not affected?
