STOP Attacks on Affordable Rental Housing by Developers in Mississauga
STOP Attacks on Affordable Rental Housing by Developers in Mississauga
The Issue
Photo above, persons from left to right:
Anthony Forgione, Apex Property Mgmt., Armin Fatehi and Tim Jessop, Montcrest Asset Mgmt. at 51 Tannery St. during an arrest - after Apex arranged a break in, unlawful home seizure and alleged thefts
Updated July 22, 2025
🔥 PETITION: Tenant Harassment, Demolition Without Permits Posted, Government Failures & Developer Abuse at 51 Tannery St., Mississauga
Thank You to All Supporters
It's time to raise more awareness and push for change to keep everyone safely housed. I need your help, so if you can, please think about signing or sharing this petition: “STOP Attacks on Affordable Rental Housing by Developers in Mississauga.”
This petition began when multiple tenants were onsite and three buildings once existed, as a response to a proposed no-fault eviction and demolition of affordable housing. Over time, it became something much more serious.
A long pattern of harm began on the night of August 16, 2019, when a demolition fence was suddenly erected after 9 p.m. A loud crash prompted a tenant to call police, fearing for safety after a demolition crew became aggressive, especially concerned there might be an assault for attempting to report on events.
The next morning, a crew returned around 8:30 a.m. and demolished a triplex. A call to the City was dismissed, and police refused involvement. A second demolition of a duplex happened in a similar way December 20, 2019. The blue fencing surrounding the property was removed September 16, 2024 and created an oppressive environment for many years.
Throughout time, concerns raised by tenants were ignored, dismissed, denied or appeared actively suppressed. Former Councillor George Carlson, who retired in 2022, showed up after the first demolition, telling a distressed tenant "nothing could be done."
It became clear the City and related government bodies often favour developers over tenants. Tenants were discouraged from participating in city processes—despite notices sent to the community, through harassment and other barriers. The surprise demolitions should not have resulted in an apparent preplanned outcome to benefit developers and investors. Profit seemed the only priority, and protected tenant rights and "freedom of expression" to participate without various threats as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter were illusory.
I endured alleged criminal harassment and intimidation as a remaining tenant— designed to drive me out of my home, clear the way for development, and cover up any alleged wrongdoing. The fight isn’t over, as accountability is still needed.
On January 25, 2025, a suspicious fire broke out at 51 Tannery St., partially collapsing the roof. Video footage of the fire was published January 27, 2025:
51 Tannery Street, Working Structure Fire - Responses / On Scene
The events that led up to the fire — and the demolition of the last home on March 3, 2025 — did not appear to be isolated incidents. They appear to be part of a disturbing pattern of neglect, abuse, silence and indifference by property managers, developers/investors, and multiple levels of government, currently unreported in the media.
🔥 What Happened — and Why It Matters
I lost everything — my home, many lifetime belongings and my faith in systems I thought would protect me. More recently, I reported experiences such as threats, unsafe conditions, losses and procedural violations. Peel Police did not intervene. City officials turned away. Some legal systems were allegedly misled — and some did not care to act, as yet.
In November 2024, property records showed a new development application by NYX Tannery LP was under appeal — after development approval was withheld by the City. I requested to participate, yet delays in processes and obstacles persisted. On March 3, 2025, a demolition truck started the last demolition, the same day as a City public meeting for the same property and did not seem to be a coincidence.
At the City public meeting a City Planner indicated to Council the house was still standing at 51 Tannery, but I informed Council a demolition of the remaining house had begun that day. The media reported the house was still standing. No demolition permits were posted onsite. The truck driver declined to produce a permit when asked. An Ontario Land Tribunal appeal is scheduled to be heard in Oct. 2025. I was denied status.
The City’s online current property information portal says the house was demolished in 2019 and a City inspection done then — which was impossible. My prior written request to correct portal information to the City in Aug. 2021 was ignored. A City official went to take photos a few days after the City meeting in Mar. 2025 when last portions of the house went down and left without a word (https://www.mississauga.ca/apps/#/property/view/building-permits)
For years I tried to navigate the system to defend my housing. Instead of a remedy, I faced silencing, exhaustion and what felt like cover-ups. My health suffered. My voice was ignored. My life was upended and much untold damage was done. I have not recovered.
⚠️ Patterns of Harassment and Abuse 🆘
Alleged sustained, predatory efforts to drive me out involved much more than can be said here but activities such as these listed below occurred:
- City and landlord non-disclosure: condition of land/chemicals before leasing and occupancy, enabled non-compliance with environmental law apparently required for permit(s)
- Sale(s) and land ownership intentionally kept secret
- Appearance of punitive denial of funds required to vacate at the Landord Tenant Board, went along with City
- Constant surveillance
- Men lurking outside the home, threats to cut off utilities - August 2024. Region of Peel caught cutting water suppIy, due to erroneous info. they were told by Apex
- Improper notice to vacate
- Barred from accessing my belongings, despite legal rights
- Apex Property Management allegedly misled police about storage without consent
- Belongings were damaged, stolen, ransacked or dumped
- Personal items taken by multiple parties
- Ongoing intimidation and bullying, door pounding, unannounced, unwelcome site visits, streams of people, invasions of privacy, destruction of property and trees
Alleged harassment, including arrest, theft, and other tactics by Montcrest Asset Management, Apex Property Management, and NYX Tannery LP involved applications that led to an alleged unlawful vacate of the property. Lack of exposure in media for what was going on helped enable it. This was not random. It was a coordinated campaign of pressure and intimidation — one that escalated until staying in the house felt life-threatening.
🏚️ The Bigger Picture — A Failing System
The fire happened only after I was allegedly unlawfully forced out. The house — Tannery House, was a historic, century-old building — the City declined to protect, despite its heritage value. The developer, Montcrest (formerly NYX Capital Corporation) sought demolition from 2019–2025, but no replacement building permits were granted.
The City of Toronto, in a separate case, told Montcrest that demolition permits cannot be issued without replacement permits. In Mississauga, this seemed to have been ignored.
“Developers are not in compliance with applicable law.”
— CTV News, Toronto
The development project was also kept hidden at a pivotal time. The proposal was never disclosed during my initial lease processes for Tannery House, but apparently existed. Between 2019 and 2021, Streetsville residents voiced serious concerns to Mississauga City Council about the loss of affordable housing and the unethical demolition of rental homes to no avaiI.
🚫 What They Didn’t Tell the Public
The Montcrest website (2023–2024) revealed critical details that were kept from residents:
“The Region of Peel has designated the property as a future Major Transit Station Area. The new proposal is to construct two 15-storey mid-rise residential buildings…” Residents were never properly informed, nor given a fair opportunity to respond.
📢 Why This Petition Matters
This is not only about one house or one person — it's about what happens when systems fail, and vulnerable tenants are left unprotected and not confined to one area. Mississauga and Toronto have both declared housing emergencies. Yet entities such as Montcrest and Apex are allowed to operate this way unchecked — even when their actions put people at risk or cause harm. This is about what happens when:
- Governments side with developers instead of people, putting profits ahead of lives
- Legal rights are trampled
- Tenants are harassed, silenced, and left in danger
This is about how housing has been turned into a money-making tool by private landlords, developers, and investors — with governments standing by or even helping as homes and land are bought for profit and connivance from government as to the seizure and purchase of land and residential housing by private, for-profit landlords/property owners, developers/builders, and private, for-profit housing investors. No wonder there's a crisis!
Tenant harassment at a great cost to lives will keep happening everywhere, until we force real change. Developers, investors and others only see it as the cost of doing business and have no incentive to change, even if sanctioned; it pays to hurt people. Reforms are badly needed for tenant protections, especially connected to City development processes.
There is more to this story than can be listed now, but this petition is one way to demand:
- Investigation, better services and transparency when calls for help are placed to authorities, not ignored
- Accountability for alleged illegal demolition and tenant abuses, as a start
- Review of development permits and enforcement failures
- Stronger protections and reform for tenants against demovictions and harassment
- Support for legal recovery and fair compensation for victim(s)
✊ 🆘 How You Can Help
✔️ Sign the petition
✔️ Share the story — and make this visible
✔️ Contact your officials — including Premier Doug Ford
CONTACT THE PREMIER Send the Premier comments/concerns
✔️ Support legal, publicity and other recovery costs through donations
🔗 Petition link: Stop Attack on AffordabIe Housing
https://www.change.org/StreetsvilleStory
📧 Email: streetsvillestory@outlook.com
💸 E-Transfers welcome at same email (note: donations to Change.org go to Change.org)
Blog (background info. on story): https://streetsvillestory
532
The Issue
Photo above, persons from left to right:
Anthony Forgione, Apex Property Mgmt., Armin Fatehi and Tim Jessop, Montcrest Asset Mgmt. at 51 Tannery St. during an arrest - after Apex arranged a break in, unlawful home seizure and alleged thefts
Updated July 22, 2025
🔥 PETITION: Tenant Harassment, Demolition Without Permits Posted, Government Failures & Developer Abuse at 51 Tannery St., Mississauga
Thank You to All Supporters
It's time to raise more awareness and push for change to keep everyone safely housed. I need your help, so if you can, please think about signing or sharing this petition: “STOP Attacks on Affordable Rental Housing by Developers in Mississauga.”
This petition began when multiple tenants were onsite and three buildings once existed, as a response to a proposed no-fault eviction and demolition of affordable housing. Over time, it became something much more serious.
A long pattern of harm began on the night of August 16, 2019, when a demolition fence was suddenly erected after 9 p.m. A loud crash prompted a tenant to call police, fearing for safety after a demolition crew became aggressive, especially concerned there might be an assault for attempting to report on events.
The next morning, a crew returned around 8:30 a.m. and demolished a triplex. A call to the City was dismissed, and police refused involvement. A second demolition of a duplex happened in a similar way December 20, 2019. The blue fencing surrounding the property was removed September 16, 2024 and created an oppressive environment for many years.
Throughout time, concerns raised by tenants were ignored, dismissed, denied or appeared actively suppressed. Former Councillor George Carlson, who retired in 2022, showed up after the first demolition, telling a distressed tenant "nothing could be done."
It became clear the City and related government bodies often favour developers over tenants. Tenants were discouraged from participating in city processes—despite notices sent to the community, through harassment and other barriers. The surprise demolitions should not have resulted in an apparent preplanned outcome to benefit developers and investors. Profit seemed the only priority, and protected tenant rights and "freedom of expression" to participate without various threats as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter were illusory.
I endured alleged criminal harassment and intimidation as a remaining tenant— designed to drive me out of my home, clear the way for development, and cover up any alleged wrongdoing. The fight isn’t over, as accountability is still needed.
On January 25, 2025, a suspicious fire broke out at 51 Tannery St., partially collapsing the roof. Video footage of the fire was published January 27, 2025:
51 Tannery Street, Working Structure Fire - Responses / On Scene
The events that led up to the fire — and the demolition of the last home on March 3, 2025 — did not appear to be isolated incidents. They appear to be part of a disturbing pattern of neglect, abuse, silence and indifference by property managers, developers/investors, and multiple levels of government, currently unreported in the media.
🔥 What Happened — and Why It Matters
I lost everything — my home, many lifetime belongings and my faith in systems I thought would protect me. More recently, I reported experiences such as threats, unsafe conditions, losses and procedural violations. Peel Police did not intervene. City officials turned away. Some legal systems were allegedly misled — and some did not care to act, as yet.
In November 2024, property records showed a new development application by NYX Tannery LP was under appeal — after development approval was withheld by the City. I requested to participate, yet delays in processes and obstacles persisted. On March 3, 2025, a demolition truck started the last demolition, the same day as a City public meeting for the same property and did not seem to be a coincidence.
At the City public meeting a City Planner indicated to Council the house was still standing at 51 Tannery, but I informed Council a demolition of the remaining house had begun that day. The media reported the house was still standing. No demolition permits were posted onsite. The truck driver declined to produce a permit when asked. An Ontario Land Tribunal appeal is scheduled to be heard in Oct. 2025. I was denied status.
The City’s online current property information portal says the house was demolished in 2019 and a City inspection done then — which was impossible. My prior written request to correct portal information to the City in Aug. 2021 was ignored. A City official went to take photos a few days after the City meeting in Mar. 2025 when last portions of the house went down and left without a word (https://www.mississauga.ca/apps/#/property/view/building-permits)
For years I tried to navigate the system to defend my housing. Instead of a remedy, I faced silencing, exhaustion and what felt like cover-ups. My health suffered. My voice was ignored. My life was upended and much untold damage was done. I have not recovered.
⚠️ Patterns of Harassment and Abuse 🆘
Alleged sustained, predatory efforts to drive me out involved much more than can be said here but activities such as these listed below occurred:
- City and landlord non-disclosure: condition of land/chemicals before leasing and occupancy, enabled non-compliance with environmental law apparently required for permit(s)
- Sale(s) and land ownership intentionally kept secret
- Appearance of punitive denial of funds required to vacate at the Landord Tenant Board, went along with City
- Constant surveillance
- Men lurking outside the home, threats to cut off utilities - August 2024. Region of Peel caught cutting water suppIy, due to erroneous info. they were told by Apex
- Improper notice to vacate
- Barred from accessing my belongings, despite legal rights
- Apex Property Management allegedly misled police about storage without consent
- Belongings were damaged, stolen, ransacked or dumped
- Personal items taken by multiple parties
- Ongoing intimidation and bullying, door pounding, unannounced, unwelcome site visits, streams of people, invasions of privacy, destruction of property and trees
Alleged harassment, including arrest, theft, and other tactics by Montcrest Asset Management, Apex Property Management, and NYX Tannery LP involved applications that led to an alleged unlawful vacate of the property. Lack of exposure in media for what was going on helped enable it. This was not random. It was a coordinated campaign of pressure and intimidation — one that escalated until staying in the house felt life-threatening.
🏚️ The Bigger Picture — A Failing System
The fire happened only after I was allegedly unlawfully forced out. The house — Tannery House, was a historic, century-old building — the City declined to protect, despite its heritage value. The developer, Montcrest (formerly NYX Capital Corporation) sought demolition from 2019–2025, but no replacement building permits were granted.
The City of Toronto, in a separate case, told Montcrest that demolition permits cannot be issued without replacement permits. In Mississauga, this seemed to have been ignored.
“Developers are not in compliance with applicable law.”
— CTV News, Toronto
The development project was also kept hidden at a pivotal time. The proposal was never disclosed during my initial lease processes for Tannery House, but apparently existed. Between 2019 and 2021, Streetsville residents voiced serious concerns to Mississauga City Council about the loss of affordable housing and the unethical demolition of rental homes to no avaiI.
🚫 What They Didn’t Tell the Public
The Montcrest website (2023–2024) revealed critical details that were kept from residents:
“The Region of Peel has designated the property as a future Major Transit Station Area. The new proposal is to construct two 15-storey mid-rise residential buildings…” Residents were never properly informed, nor given a fair opportunity to respond.
📢 Why This Petition Matters
This is not only about one house or one person — it's about what happens when systems fail, and vulnerable tenants are left unprotected and not confined to one area. Mississauga and Toronto have both declared housing emergencies. Yet entities such as Montcrest and Apex are allowed to operate this way unchecked — even when their actions put people at risk or cause harm. This is about what happens when:
- Governments side with developers instead of people, putting profits ahead of lives
- Legal rights are trampled
- Tenants are harassed, silenced, and left in danger
This is about how housing has been turned into a money-making tool by private landlords, developers, and investors — with governments standing by or even helping as homes and land are bought for profit and connivance from government as to the seizure and purchase of land and residential housing by private, for-profit landlords/property owners, developers/builders, and private, for-profit housing investors. No wonder there's a crisis!
Tenant harassment at a great cost to lives will keep happening everywhere, until we force real change. Developers, investors and others only see it as the cost of doing business and have no incentive to change, even if sanctioned; it pays to hurt people. Reforms are badly needed for tenant protections, especially connected to City development processes.
There is more to this story than can be listed now, but this petition is one way to demand:
- Investigation, better services and transparency when calls for help are placed to authorities, not ignored
- Accountability for alleged illegal demolition and tenant abuses, as a start
- Review of development permits and enforcement failures
- Stronger protections and reform for tenants against demovictions and harassment
- Support for legal recovery and fair compensation for victim(s)
✊ 🆘 How You Can Help
✔️ Sign the petition
✔️ Share the story — and make this visible
✔️ Contact your officials — including Premier Doug Ford
CONTACT THE PREMIER Send the Premier comments/concerns
✔️ Support legal, publicity and other recovery costs through donations
🔗 Petition link: Stop Attack on AffordabIe Housing
https://www.change.org/StreetsvilleStory
📧 Email: streetsvillestory@outlook.com
💸 E-Transfers welcome at same email (note: donations to Change.org go to Change.org)
Blog (background info. on story): https://streetsvillestory
532
The Decision Makers
Petition created on October 4, 2019