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1. A tenant union-type org set up by leftists would not have been able to carry out the organzing work being done by Toronto tenants during COVID.
2. Struggles around rent and evictions in Toronto during COVID have been waged by groups of tenants organized at the level of their buildings and neighbourhoods. They have co-ordinated with each other through the Keep Your Rent campaign.
3. The density (of people) and concentration (of activity) that building + district-based organzing allows for is what has produced the level of engagement required for developing capacity for independent action.
4. Methods of communication and decision-making at the building level allow for committees in an area to begin to co-ordinate. KYR helped organized buildings and neighbourhoods to link up across the city during the crisis but most engagement happens in bldgs + districts.
5. More and stronger independent committees of working class people in buildings and neighbourhoods across Toronto, and their members' growing commitment to work to expand this organzing to even more areas, is the positive political development.
