Punchy, straight and simple prose: outline for 200-word article ARTICLE – 200 WORDS FIGHTING CAPITALIST INJUSTICE What is Justice? Justice, Plato argued, is the having and doing of what is one’s own and what belongs to oneself. The original contains the words, ta oikea, household, home. Every living thing desires to be at home in the universe, finding its place, its life struggle. Price of everything and value of nothing We live in a capitalist world where everything is for sale. It is a world which knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Housing, justly understood, is a human right, it is not for sale. Capitalist injustice manifested by corporate capitalism renovictions Gentrification has changed from a few landlords renovating homes and raising the rents slightly to the wholesale evicting of tenants by corporate capitalist firms such as Timbercreek, letting the building fall in disrepair, buying out tenants, doing slight upgrades and doubling the rent (renoviction) The Situation in Parkdale Gentrification is stripping Parkdale, traditionally a place for new immigrants and other low-income renters, of its rooming houses, long-time tenants forced out through renovibtions. PNLT One community group, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (PNLT), is leading the fightback: Community property rather than private or government owned is the way forward.