In two large apartment buildings in the upper east end of Toronto, the ripple effect of COVID has been playing out for nearly a year now. Precarious employment leads to a job loss. Support systems evaporate. Then, as the money dries up, tenants reach a desperate final frontier: They default on rent. In the hallways, residents of these two corporate-owned apartment buildings started talking. The property managers were offering rent repayment plans... but when would people even be able to start paying rent again? How long would COVID go on? Faced with losing the last thing they have — their homes — tenants are organizing around systemic change. Doc Project producer Julia Pagel follows three people who've decided that to stay put, they have to take action.

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