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If this screen is not safe, leave it.

Use another device later. For violence, call 911 or the Assaulted Women’s Helpline at 1-866-863-0511 (TTY 1-866-863-7868, text #SAFE / 7233).

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Are you in immediate danger?

If someone is threatening you, if you cannot get into your home, or if children are unsafe, call 911. Illegal lockouts are still an emergency even when the landlord calls it “enforcement.”

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Need a bed tonight?

Dial 211 anywhere in Ontario (24/7, 150+ languages). In Toronto call Central Intake at 416-338-4766 or 1-877-338-3398. Family shelters exist; say you are a family. Violence-specific spaces go through the Assaulted Women’s Helpline, not the general men’s shelter line.

Emergency housing path

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Is there a notice on the door?

Photograph every page. A notice is not an eviction order. You usually have the right to stay until the Landlord and Tenant Board says otherwise. Decode the form, then call a clinic.

Decode the notice Eviction rights

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Were you refused housing, told “no kids,” or denied a disability accommodation?

That is often a Human Rights Code problem, not only a landlord-tenant problem. You can walk both paths: LTB and HRTO.

Human rights in housing Family status

Write three lines before you sleep: the address, the date the problem started, and the name of every person who spoke to you. That scrap of paper is the start of a file.

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