Founded in 2024 following significant community and citizen mobilization in the West Island of Montreal, the West Island Tenants Action Committee (CALODI) is an independent community organization whose mission is to promote accessibility to good quality housing and to improve the quality of life for tenants in the West Island. We work to accomplish this mission by:
- Offering free information services on your rights and responsibilities as a tenant by telephone, email or in person;
- Holding educational workshops on themes that affect the lives of tenants such as rent increases, the Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL), etc.;
- The mobilization of different stakeholders for any issue related to housing in the West Island;
- Raising public awareness of the problems of private rental housing and encouraging the development of social housing.
Although the West Island is perceived as a socio-economically well-off living environment, the reality for many is very different and the problems and hardships faced by tenants in the area have been ignored for too long. The CALODI’s work helps to rectify this situation and to empower West Island tenants to act to defend their rights and fully define their living environment.
The organization’s area of operation includes the cities of Baie-d’Urfé, Beaconsfield, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Dorval, Kirkland, Pointe-Claire, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, and Senneville, and the boroughs of the Île-Bizard-Sainte-Geneviève and Pierrefonds-Roxboro.