Send an email to Smart Living Properties founders and owners Tamer Abaza and Rakan Abushaar, as well as Jules Lauzon, SLP’s Vice President, Development and Construction, and Ryan Denyer, SLP’s Director of Product and Brand. Read more about these SLP executives here.
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To: tamer@smartlivingproperties.ca, rakan@smartlivingproperties.ca, ryan@smartlivingproperties.ca
cc: bankblocktenants@gmail.com
Subject: Drop the Evictions
Tamer Abaza and Rakan Abushaar:
I am writing in support of the tenants at 227 Bank and 178 Nepean. I am demanding that you:
- Withdraw all of your eviction applications against these tenants
- Meet with the tenant committee to discuss the situation
- Stop communicating with tenants individually and only communicate with the tenants through their tenant committee, Bank Block Tenants: bankblocktenants@gmail.com
Your plan to demolish rent-controlled housing and evict all tenants is the last thing this neighbourhood needs right now. I vehemently oppose what you are trying to do. Considering Bank Block Tenants are low-income, and many are seniors or have some form of disability, your evictions amount to violence and would cause untold damage to their lives.
Tamer and Rakan: you have made a fortune from displacing working class tenants in Ottawa. Your livelihoods have been exposed. You can no longer hide from your actions. The displacement must stop.
I stand with Bank Block Tenants and will continue to do what it takes to make sure my neighbours remain indefinitely housed at Bank Block.
Drop the evictions.