Every project,
dated and marked.

How we've used radical transparency as our guiding principle to (re)build Toronto's rental system for the city's shadow market.

Turning community data into renter power. This real-time dashboard visualizes market trends and pricing, giving our members the hard evidence they need to negotiate fairly and understand the shifting landscape of Toronto housing.
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Ditching the doom-scroll. We transformed our massive data pool into a lightning-fast search experience, allowing users to bypass the noise and find exactly what they need in a high-velocity rental market.
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The pulse of 140k+ voices. Our yearly deep-dive ensures the group's evolution is guided by the people using it. The 2025 survey focused on the "shadow market" of shared rentals, directly informing our 2026 advocacy goals.

A bold experiment in digital safety. While the partnership ended in 2025 due to goConfirm's app closing, integrating them into THZ rules set a new community standard for safety through digital ID protocols that successfully eliminated rental scams and built a foundation of radical trust within the group.

Initiated by our Roommate Agreement template and sublet rental guide, this is an ever-expanding resource for rental wayfinding. We developed these free knowledge-based tools to provide a safety net for the thousands of "paying guest" situations and shared-kitchen renters who are often excluded from traditional RTA-based online resources.
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The blueprint for modern search. What started as a manual, embedded Google Sheet became the proof-of-concept for the Live Filter, proving that our community was hungry for better ways to navigate housing data. Similar to today, every post approved to THZ is manually logged in the dataset.

Our first foray into data transparency. These manual reports were the precursor to our Live Insights dashboard, proving that even a "team of one" could find meaningful patterns in the chaos of the rental market. We'll be exploring new (more time-efficient) ways to create snapshots of the market over time in 2026.

Drawing a line in the sand when we started seeing $3,000+ one-bedrooms come through THZ daily, we implemented strict caps to ensure our community remained accessible and to protest unchecked hikes during the city's housing crisis.

Where roommate matching and networking met comedy. This high-energy event, MC'd by Daniel Woodrow and sponsored by Duuo Insurance, turned the stress of finding roommates into a social celebration. Currently on hiatus, we'll be engaging sponsors to bring this back by 2027.
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In 2021, we developed a flow chart to help THZ members use the right rental terms in their posts to make them compliant with Ontario rental laws. Today it's an interactive quick-check tool, made accessible to people outside of the group as a navigator of rental term meanings and the rights tied to them.
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The origin of a movement. Originally born within the former Bunz ecosystem, THZ evolved into an independent powerhouse under Deneille's leadership. It shifted from a listing group where toxicity was often encouraged, to an internationally recommended rights-focused community that prioritizes education, dignity, and scam-free housing.
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