At 90, Sylvia Berk doesn't know where she'll go if she's forced to leave her small apartment in downtown Windsor, Ont.

Berk doesn't have any family nearby and health issues have confined her to a wheelchair.

"I'm very happy because I have good friends here and they help me every day with what I can't do for myself," she said recently.

Berk, a lifelong musician who loves to write, has lived at the I.L. Peretz House, a 71-unit apartment building for low-income seniors in the city's core, for a dozen years.

But in the last year, the monthly rent for her unit has jumped by more than 50 per cent, from $447 to $700. It's still below market rate for a one-bedroom like hers, but she said her low fixed income isn't enough to cover it.

Now, with the help of her neighbours, she's fighting an evi

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