He’s 91 and facing eviction. How Toronto’s housing crisis is playing out for this senior

[shockedcanadian]

More destruction of the vulnerable, sacrificed on the alter of the massive, bloated police state.

When Canadians talk about "social programs", they are gaslighting you. Every single social program in the nation has been cut deep, hurting the most vulnerable. The only certainty in Canada is expanding police budgets. Death, taxes and police budget increases...guaranteed in Canada, while the young and elderly are left to perish.

They interfere in kids education, in your work pursuits, your relationships, your healthcare.

May the criminals who destroyed Canada be judged.

He’s 91 and facing eviction. How Toronto’s housing crisis is playing out for this senior

Amid a heat warning in effect in Toronto on Friday, law enforcement and municipal political staff tried to find Isidoro Ventullo time, shelter space or another roof, to no avail.

www.thestar.com

Isidoro Ventullo didn’t know where he was going to lay his head.
The 91-year-old had contemplated jail.

He deliberated simply refusing to leave his rental unit in Little Italy, where he’s lived for the past two decades, when provincial officers came knocking Friday to carry out an eviction order.

Toronto’s shelter system? Full, officials told him.

“I don’t sleep. I’m stressed,” Ventullo said outside of his home. “I’m depressed. Where am I to go? No friends or family.”
Through five hours in the hot sun Friday, with a heat warning in effect for Toronto, various law enforcement and municipal political staff desperately tried to find Ventullo time, shelter space or another roof, to no avail, as systemic challenges collided in a way that critics say is all too familiar in Canada’s biggest city.

Anatomy of an eviction​

The details of Ventullo’s eviction depend on whom you ask.

His initial landlord, 94-year-old Toronto resident Jose Demelo, has dementia and resides in an assisted living facility. The landlord’s son, George Demelo, sought an order to evict Ventullo from his ground-level unit because the younger Demelo “intended to move into the unit to support” his father “for at least one year,” according to court documents.

George tried unsuccessfully to evict Ventullo in July 2023 with his first N12 form, a notice a landlord can use to end a tenancy when they or a close family member need the unit for their own use — a situation facing an increasing number of tenants across Toronto in recent years.

What ensued was a two-year battle of appeals and hearings at the Landlord and Tenant Board as well as the Superior Court of Justice.
The court recently upheld the legality of the eviction. Court documents note that George, who moved from Edmonton to Toronto, wanted “to be close to his father (Jose), who relies on him for emotional, financial and other support,” describing the eviction as being done in “good faith.”

 

[EvilCat Breath]

He's 91 Canada will gladly kill him.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Complaining to an American audience is never going to solve any Canadian problems for it's citizens.
Wasting time and virtue signaling is ALL it is.

If you really cared, you'd do more than this.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Complaining to an American audience is never going to solve any Canadian problems for it's citizens.
Wasting time and virtue signaling is ALL it is.

If you really cared, you'd do more than this.

Listen friend, I've cost myself a lifetime of burden by reaching out to EVERY Canadian politician at the highest level. Do you know who cared more? The U.S politicians and agencies I reached out to.

You're the last stand. Trump, the FBI, CIA and other agencies need to know who shares your values and who doesn't. Perhaps CSIS is worth building relations with because from the TPS, DRPS, Peel Region Pedos, OPP on up to the RCMP, you do NOT have allies in Canada.

Believe me, the least impressive kids who misrepresented other kids, the kids who failed in school destroyed those who excelled in school.

The dumbest among us gamed the system to make $100 an hour as covert operatives while the smartest among us are unemployed due to their lies. The very smartest among us left for America long ago.

G-d bless them for being smart enough to leave when they did. Americans MUST know the truth. You're being played, some of you all too willingly accepting their narrative.

 

[Seth]

More destruction of the vulnerable, sacrificed on the alter of the massive, bloated police state.

When Canadians talk about "social programs", they are gaslighting you. Every single social program in the nation has been cut deep, hurting the most vulnerable. The only certainty in Canada is expanding police budgets. Death, taxes and police budget increases...guaranteed in Canada, while the young and elderly are left to perish.

This is a gut-punch of a story—and you’re right to highlight it. A 91-year-old man, heat warning in effect, sitting outside his lifelong neighborhood because there’s no bed, no room, no plan. That shouldn’t be happening in a country that prides itself on compassion.

The eviction was technically legal, and the landlord’s son wasn’t acting out of malice—but that’s kind of the problem: when a perfectly “legal” process ends with a 91-year-old man baking on the curb with nowhere to go, it says more about the system than the paperwork.

That said, a few claims in your post swing a little wide of the maple tree. Not every social program has been gutted, though many are hanging by duct tape and overworked staff. And yes, police budgets have grown fast—but not everywhere and not alone.

Still, the big picture’s clear: something’s broken when we’ve got empty luxury condos and full homeless shelters. And if anyone’s handing out “fiscal sanity” awards, it’s not going to be Toronto’s city council this year.

Maybe instead of calling it a housing crisis, we should call it what it is: a policy crisis with a rent invoice stapled to it.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

I've got a friend in Manitoba whose mothers boyfriend had his govt funds cut back so badly, he can't afford rent anymore.

He's in his 70s/80s and the boyfriend had to sell off everything he owned and move in with my friends mother.

He can't even get a part time job to make up rent on a dinky apartment, because if he got any kind of job, he would lose ALL of his gov't income he has a right to.

So, he's pretty much fucked.

And THIS is what Trump has been up against with the Commie loving DemonicRats here in the USA...........because this is what they want for Americans.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I've got a friend in Manitoba whose mothers boyfriend had his govt funds cut back so badly, he can't afford rent anymore.

He's in his 70s/80s and the boyfriend had to sell off everything he owned and move in with my friends mother.

He can't even get a part time job to make up rent on a dinky apartment, because if he got any kind of job, he would lose ALL of his gov't income he has a right to.

So, he's pretty much fucked.

And THIS is what Trump has been up against with the Commie loving DemonicRats here in the USA...........because this is what they want for Americans.

There are some police agencies and covert agents who have destroyed our nation, especially in Ontario. They know how I feel and what I know because I've told them.

I'm a Sigma male, I just call it as it is with the guidance of G-ds hand. I wouldn't hurt a fly and I will often even save a bug that is in distress because I am a confident man. I don't pursue confrontation or the limelight, I don't look for celebrity status for blowing the whistle, but, from the interference in my education, career, my grandfather will, these devils won't be given a free pass without me advising them of what I know.

They will be judged for their deceit of Canadians, Americans and those real men who died fighting for our liberty. They will be judged if not in this life than in the next. They should all seek forgiveness which requires a direct request to those they have violated. G-d will guide the victims decision to forgive or not.

Anyone who violates citizens from the cradle to the grave are cowards, let's not bestow any false attribution of courage of intellectual contribution for some artificially manufactured "intelligence work". Cowardice is what they and their lineage embody.

Creepy people leverage kids to do their dirty work to place citizens in a perpetual blender. Not even the Stasi would be so creepy and cowardly.

 

[shockedcanadian]

A follow up to my posting yesterday. Let me tell you, Canada has never been very protective of the most vulnerable among us. Of this I guarantee from personal experience as a kid. They love to destroy the vulnerable.

If Canada had Americas military and economy, you can bet we wouldn't have been as generous to America as you have been to us the last 150 years.

They destroyed so many souls in this country, preventing them from earning a living to take care of themselves in their later years. I'm not saying this applies to him but it applies to MANY in Canada, including myself.

They terrorist abusers in this country love the young and poor the most. Their next favourite target are the elderly and infirmed.

Sick people. Toronto used to be a heavily dominant Judeo-Christian city. Clearly they've abandoned these principles of humanity long ago, replaced with a MASSIVE police state.

We are NOT your ally. Period, end of story. Perhaps it's time you demand we represent the values we publicly promote, or, stop treating us like an ally...

When a 91-year-old renter in Toronto is evicted with nowhere else to go, our governments have failed completely​

Star Editorial Board: When a 91-year-old renter in Toronto is evicted with nowhere else to go, our governments have failed completely

Many of us believe that we treat our elders with the respect and care they deserve in Canada. Tell that to Isidoro Ventullo.

www.thestar.com

If Toronto’s housing crisis needed a face, then 91-year-old Isidoro Ventullo more than qualifies for the role.
As Mahdis Habibinia reported in the Star on Monday, Ventullo didn’t know where he would lay his head after an eviction order that he’d been resisting for two years was finally executed last week.

He had no family or friends to turn to, and the city’s shelter system had no space for him.


“I don’t sleep,” he told Habibinia. “I’m stressed. I’m depressed. Where am I to go?”

No 91-year-old should have to ask that question. And it’s not as if Ventullo had been living in luxury: a friend described the ground-level unit in Little Italy that he’d rented for 20 years as “really run down,” with no refrigerator and “plaster falling from the ceiling.”

Ventullo also says he endured an infestation of bedbugs prior to receiving his eviction notice, issued in July 2023 by his landlord’s son, George Demelo, who according to court documents said he intended to move from Edmonton to Toronto and into the unit to support his ailing father. (Demelo did not respond to the Star’s repeated requests for comment.)

A legal battle ensued, and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice upheld the eviction. Yet some observers believe Ventullo is the victim of a “renoviction.” Indeed, tenants across Ontario have accused landlords of issuing bogus eviction notices under the pretext of moving in themselves or making essential renovations.

City council passed a long-overdue bylaw last year to protect tenants against evictions disguised as essential renovations, but the legislation doesn’t take effect until July 31 — yet it can’t come soon enough.

Housing is scarce across almost all sectors, and that includes retirement homes.

 

[ScorpioRising007]

More destruction of the vulnerable, sacrificed on the alter of the massive, bloated police state.

When Canadians talk about "social programs", they are gaslighting you. Every single social program in the nation has been cut deep, hurting the most vulnerable. The only certainty in Canada is expanding police budgets. Death, taxes and police budget increases...guaranteed in Canada, while the young and elderly are left to perish.

They interfere in kids education, in your work pursuits, your relationships, your healthcare.

May the criminals who destroyed Canada be judged.

He’s 91 and facing eviction. How Toronto’s housing crisis is playing out for this senior

Amid a heat warning in effect in Toronto on Friday, law enforcement and municipal political staff tried to find Isidoro Ventullo time, shelter space or another roof, to no avail.

www.thestar.com

Isidoro Ventullo didn’t know where he was going to lay his head.
The 91-year-old had contemplated jail.

He deliberated simply refusing to leave his rental unit in Little Italy, where he’s lived for the past two decades, when provincial officers came knocking Friday to carry out an eviction order.

Toronto’s shelter system? Full, officials told him.

“I don’t sleep. I’m stressed,” Ventullo said outside of his home. “I’m depressed. Where am I to go? No friends or family.”
Through five hours in the hot sun Friday, with a heat warning in effect for Toronto, various law enforcement and municipal political staff desperately tried to find Ventullo time, shelter space or another roof, to no avail, as systemic challenges collided in a way that critics say is all too familiar in Canada’s biggest city.

Anatomy of an eviction​

The details of Ventullo’s eviction depend on whom you ask.

His initial landlord, 94-year-old Toronto resident Jose Demelo, has dementia and resides in an assisted living facility. The landlord’s son, George Demelo, sought an order to evict Ventullo from his ground-level unit because the younger Demelo “intended to move into the unit to support” his father “for at least one year,” according to court documents.

George tried unsuccessfully to evict Ventullo in July 2023 with his first N12 form, a notice a landlord can use to end a tenancy when they or a close family member need the unit for their own use — a situation facing an increasing number of tenants across Toronto in recent years.

What ensued was a two-year battle of appeals and hearings at the Landlord and Tenant Board as well as the Superior Court of Justice.
The court recently upheld the legality of the eviction. Court documents note that George, who moved from Edmonton to Toronto, wanted “to be close to his father (Jose), who relies on him for emotional, financial and other support,” describing the eviction as being done in “good faith.”

Really awful. Unfortunately I have heard similar stories in US and with Trump's cuts targeting social security and disability benefits it may be even worse for seniors. It is a real shame to hear they are trying to screw seniors over in Canada too.