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English
Etymology
Blend of renovate + evict.
Verb
renovict (third-person singular simple present renovicts, present participle renovicting, simple past and past participle renovicted)
- (British Columbia) To evict (a tenant) on the grounds that a large-scale renovation is planned.
2014 January 29, Andrew MacLeod, “High BC Housing Costs Weaken Economy, Drive Inequality”, in The Tyee:The apartment is smaller than one she had previously, from which she says she was renovicted, or forced to move so the landowner could renovate.
2014 April 23, Ian Bailey, “Robertson calls five per cent rise in Vancouver homeless 'frustrating'”, in The Globe and Mail:“That’s a very large increase from 2011,” Mr. Robertson told reporters at a briefing about the release of preliminary numbers, noting it has been driven by such factors as delayed social-housing projects and lower shelter capacity due to less money from the province, as well as people “renovicted” from single-room-occupancy housing.
2014 November 4, “Terrace city council candidate: Lucy Praught”, in Terrace Standard:If I were to be renovicted I would have to think about where I am going to live," she said.
2015 June 19, Justin McElroy, “Renoviction roller coaster for Vancouver man ends with Pyrrhic victory”, in Global News:It's one of the main reasons why Vancouver had the highest homeless count it's ever had last year – because people are being renovicted from SROs.
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