East York

Princess Management

Teesdale Place has two market-rent buildings owned by Princess Management behind Vic Park subway station. Residents have dealt with years of abuse, harassment and rent increases. The mainly Bengali, Afghan and East African immigrant families have tried to resist these conditions through the courts and public pressure without success. 

“Since April, the Keep Your Rent campaign has grown in Teesdale, and been taken up by dozens of households. Visits to head office, calling news cameras to the block, and defying attempts by superintendents to repress tabling, and flyering have begun to shift dynamics on the ground. Tenants are emboldened for June, and determined to fight and organize to defend their interests in one of the poorest areas of East York that still see rent skyrocket.”