Renters are out to evict Premier Gordon Campbell and his B.C. Liberals from government.

Leading the Renters Fight Back campaign is West End activist Christine Ackerman, who describes herself as an eviction survivor.

“It is an electoral campaign to get out the vote,” Ackerman told the Straight. “If the B.C. Liberal government gets back in, we can pretty much say goodbye to protection to renters.”

Ackerman and fellow housing advocate Stephen Hammond have put up a Web site that aims to mobilize renters—who they say comprise at least 30 percent of all households in British Columbia.

Metro Vancouver even has a bigger concentration of renters, who constitute close to 52 percent of households in the region, according to the duo’s site.

Ackerman is also a director of the West End Residents Association, according to WERA president Brent Granby.

Granby has written an account about Ackerman’s experience last spring, when she and 19 other tenants at the Glenmore Apartments (1885 Barclay Street) received eviction notices.

“The company that owns the building claimed that it needed vacant possession of the apartments to do plumbing renovations,” Granby wrote on the WERA site.

Five tenants moved out, leaving 15 to dispute the evictions.

Today, Ackerman and eight other original tenants remain the apartment building.