Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 17/06/2026👀🤓 Gogogo get @colewebber.bsky.social and Philip’s book 232
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Exciting day: Got to do the long-form Census! 010
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 27/03/2026‘Quebec's housing tribunal rules no-pet clause in rental lease violates Charter rights’cbc.caQuebec's housing tribunal rules no-pet clause in rental lease violates Charter rights | CBC NewsA recent ruling by Quebec’s housing tribunal has found the no-pet clause of a rental lease to be in violation of the province's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. 010
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 03/03/2026One of the more discouraging parts of living in a province (PEI) with unit-based rent control: Enforcement relies on existing tenants filing a form for the potential to have overpaid rent returned to them + have rent for their unit be lowered to the legal amount. 122
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 20/02/2026‘Saint Mary’s graduate student uncovers hidden barriers in PEI’s rental market’: news.smu.ca/news/2026/2/... Many thanks to SMU Research News for featuring this story!news.smu.caSaint Mary’s graduate student uncovers hidden barriers in PEI’s rental market | SMU News and EventsWhen Brittany Cormier began scrolling through rental ads in Charlottetown, she was not looking for a research topic. She was trying to help people keep a roof over their heads. 010
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Local housing researcher thrilled to have scored this book! 🤓 030
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I spy at the Bookmark in PEI 😍 The Tenant Class by @ricardotranjan.bsky.social Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis by @cwhitzman.bsky.social 050
Reposted by Brittany CRadical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 28/06/2025#Updates piece “Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act in Washington DC: A Brief History” discusses a key #housingjustice legal tool enabling working-class tenants to collectively purchase their homes, increasingly undermined by funding cuts & policy rollbacks radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/tenant-...radicalhousingjournal.orgTenant Opportunity to Purchase Act in Washington DC: » Radical Housing JournalThis update looks into the history and the current contestation of Washington, D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA). TOPA provides tenants of rental housing with the right of first refusal... 022
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Can we take a moment to appreciate this random rose colour I mixed? 150
Reposted by Brittany CAdsum for Women & Children @adsumforwomen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025My family lived in a hotel for a year. I wish people understood homelessness isn't a choice. #Housingisahumanright | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caFIRST PERSON | My family lived in a hotel for a year. I wish people understood homelessness isn't a choice | CBC NewsWhen Terri Singer and her family were priced out of the rental market, they had no choice but to live in a hotel. She writes it felt like a gilded prison of sorts, where they could see others come and... 052
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 28/05/2025- Approx 1 in 5 individuals per 1000 residents experiencing homelessness in Saskatoon - 315 children in 2024 compared to 26 children in 2022 “Evictions are the primary factor contributing to homelessness, reported by over half of survey respondents.” www.saskatoon.ca/news-release...saskatoon.caPoint-in-Time Homelessness Count community report highlights Indigenous over-representation and more children and adults; evictions a primary contributing factorSaskatoon is experiencing the highest number of individuals facing homelessness ever recorded. The findings are revealed in the 2024 Point-in-Time (PiT) Count Community Report, officially released on ... 000
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Exciting! Many thanks to the @housingrightsca.bsky.social team for their support with these research projects ☺️ 010
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 21/04/2025A fellow Canadian artist (Sarah Rutledge) started a daily abstract art journal, and while I probably won’t get to it everyday, the first one was a lot of fun! 🎨 150
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025So all chip flavors are just better if they’re kettle chips, right? 100
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Me, trying to keep track of all of the journals relevant to my field: 👁️👄👁️ 000
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Doing research and attending a ton of meetings over the years means my trusty notebook is nearly full. I’m a little weirdo who won’t buy just any notebook. The front cover design has to ~be a vibe~ and it must be spiral bound!! 010
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025A multi-unit apt in Charlottetown experienced a significant fire today. The informal PEI forced displacement + eviction tracker I've kept for 2+ years has shown that displacements experienced by tenants that tend to make the news are often due to fires. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caFlames shoot out of windows as apartment building burns in downtown Charlottetown | CBC NewsA fire is burning at an apartment building on Sydney Street in downtown Charlottetown, causing smoke to fill the air near Queen Street stores and the main library building. 220
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 18/12/2024➡️ Private apartment vacancy rates in Charlottetown, PEI over the past decade (Oct 2014 - Oct 2024). Its been a rough go for renters since 2017. Note the blip increase in 2020? STR operators reverting back to the long-term market because the pandemic decimated tourist season that year. 1157
Reposted by Brittany CAaron Carr @aaronacarr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Today we are announcing a $15.9 million settlement with Blackstone in a rent fraud class action. This is one of the largest settlements in New York City rent stabilization history and just the tip of the iceberg of the rampant rent fraud problem plaguing New Yorkers. 1/nytimes.comBlackstone Renters Said They Were Overcharged. Now They’re Getting $15 Million.Dozens of New York City renters are receiving payoffs from Blackstone in a settlement of a case that accused the previous landlord of violating rent-stabilization rules. 2167
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 25/11/2024“Referencing can be the decisive factor in decisions about who gets access to what housing. These decisions are now frequently arrived at through a combination of the expanding availability of data and the processing power of algorithms.” 010
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Listen.. I make some stellar cookies already. But this first crack at brown butter chocolate chunk cookies? 🔥 040
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I'm about 90 pages into my master's thesis and I don't know how I can have so many yet so few thoughts at the same time. I want to PERISH 😭media.tenor.coma cartoon of a woman drinking coffee in front of a check out sign at 11amALT: a cartoon of a woman drinking coffee in front of a check out sign at 11am 160
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Efforts to silence tenants reminds me of recent provincial election season on PEI where candidates couldn’t canvas in some apt buildings because LLs forbade tenants from letting them in. 020
Reposted by Brittany CAbe Oudshoorn @abeoudshoorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024So how come the people who live in the group home down the street don't have to be consulted every time someone new moves onto my block? 1123
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Well I've accomplished everything I need to - someone just told me my pumpkin cheesecake is better than one they got from a bakery 💃 210
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 17/11/2024⏬ The continued call to remove rent control in PEI remains an exhausting one. Unaffordability is a top concern for renter HHs in PEI. For example: Over 1/3 of renter HHs in Ch'Town, Stratford & Cornwall spend >30% of income on rent. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca 151
Brittany C @brittanycormier.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Greetings, 1) In due time, I will try to re-follow everyone I'd been following on the X/bird site, which will remain an active (albeit private) account. 2) For those new: I do housing and homelessness research in 🇨🇦, evaluation, and painting 🎨 140
