{"id":1350,"date":"2026-04-03T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/parkdale-teachers-fight-for-students-amidst-rent-hikes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:01:21","slug":"parkdale-teachers-fight-for-students-amidst-rent-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/parkdale-teachers-fight-for-students-amidst-rent-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkdale Teachers Fight for Students Amidst Rent Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parkdale teachers are rallying against rising rents, highlighting the impact on their students. With kids gossiping about evictions and rent increases, educators are witnessing firsthand the stress and instability high housing costs inflict. A recent TDSB survey revealed that 53-62% of Parkdale families with schoolchildren worry about food insecurity, compared to just 23-26% across Toronto. Teachers are supporting a rent strike at 75 Spencer Ave., where tenants face a potential 5.4% rent increase. Discover how these teachers are fighting to protect their students and community from the escalating housing crisis. For the full story, visit the original article on thestar.com.<\/p>\n

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Parkdale teachers are fighting back against rent hikes impacting their students’ well-being and housing stability. Learn how they’re advocating for affordable housing in their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[210,629,712,628,713,207],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-residential","tag-affordable-housing","tag-parkdale","tag-rent-hikes","tag-rent-strike","tag-teachers","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}