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Saw this on the CityTV website, and thought it might be helpful to some readers of this board...

CityTV - Your landlord is selling your rental home. Now what?




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From CTVNews - Most illegal eviction fines are less than one month's rent

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Ontario’s rental market watchdog doesn’t often fine landlords for evicting tenants illegally — and when it does, most fines are under $2,000, according to new data.

That has the opposition NDP crying foul, saying most fines are less than the cost of a month’s rent in Toronto’s red-hot rental market and warning lower consequences could put more tenants at risk of illegal eviction.

“The data is shocking,” said NDP housing critic Jessica Bell. “This is telling us loud and clear that the rules are not helping tenants, and they are not being enforced.”

Bell said of the 51 fines issued in the last four years, only one landlord has paid up.

... and ...

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Toronto is the second-most expensive rental market in Canada, with the average rent for a one-bedroom hitting $2,551 at the end of 2022, according to Rentals.ca and Urbanation. The average price of a two-bedroom hit $3,363.

Social worker Axiom Edmonds said fines less than a month’s rent aren’t likely to have an impact when an eviction could give a landlord the opportunity to set the rent higher for the next tenant.

“That’s nothing to a landlord.

This is infuriating, and completely unacceptable!!  This basically proves that the Landlord and Tenant Board is completely skewed in favour of the Landlords!



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From CTVNews today:

New report reveals 'landlord playbook' on renovictions in Toronto

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A new report issued by a Toronto tenant advocacy group is detailing “the landlord’s playbook” on renovictions – a term used to describe the practice of evicting a tenant with the intention to renovate a unit – and providing guidance for tenants facing similar scenarios.

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Sorry that this one is behind a pay-wall, maybe an open copy will surface somewhere, but for those who can read the Globe and Mail online...

Eviction applications spike in Ontario as rents soar, vacancies dwindle

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As Ontario faces a chronic shortage of housing and rapidly climbing rents, landlords in the province are increasingly trying to evict their tenants and take possession of those rental units.

In 2022, the Landlord and Tenant Board, which adjudicates rental-housing disputes in the province, received more than 5,550 eviction applications in which landlords sought units for themselves, family members or new buyers. That was an increase of 41 per cent from 2019, according to numbers provided by the province to The Globe and Mail.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-housing-eviction-applications-ontario/



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From CityNews / CityTV website:

How to protect yourself against 'renoviction' as rental markets heat up

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a recent report from Ontario’s Advocacy Centre for Tenants (ACTO) found there has been a 294 per cent increase in landlord applications to evict tenants for renovations or conversions at the province’s Landlord and Tenant Board since 2015-16.

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In most jurisdictions, landlords need the permission of the Landlord and Tenant Board before they can evict tenants for the purpose of renovations.

But many tenants may not know that, and may move out as soon as a landlord asks them to.


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Renters who band together, organise, and excercise their rights do sometimes come out victorious against greedy corporate landlords:

People in Toronto win the right to stay in their homes after five-year eviction battle

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Tenants living in the low-rise building at 394 Dovercourt Rd. in Toronto near College Street have been enagaged in a legal battle with their corporate landlord for five years, and they just finally won the right to remain in their homes.

Here's a link to the article on blogto.com:

https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2022/09/people-toronto-win-right-to-stay-five-year-eviction/



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Rent / More from CTV News: Canadian tenants struggle to Pay Rent
« on: August 19, 2022, 02:12:19 am »

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General Discussion / 2021 Annual RentSafeTO Report
« on: March 18, 2022, 02:43:00 pm »
Toronto's RentSafeTO program has released it's latest (2021) review report:

2021 RentSafeTO Year in Review
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I was reading this article in the Globe and Mail:

"Why are B.C. renters subsidizing B.C. homeowners? Answer: Politics"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-why-are-bc-renters-subsidizing-bc-homeowners-answer-politics

... in which I read: "Toronto charges a higher property tax rate on apartment buildings than houses."

and I thought, really?  But the article provides a link:

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/property-taxes-utilities/property-tax/property-tax-rates-and-fees/
(and then click on "Property Tax Rates")

and sure enough:
"Residential" properties are only taxed by 0.611013%
"Multi-Residential" properties are only taxed by 1.093384%

That's crazy!  The article's thesis is that the problem is "politics" (meaning, no party wants to piss-off any groups or people by making things fairer for other groups), but I think that the real reason is that Renters are not Organised.  We need to join together, to speak with a unified voice, to get ourselves heard!

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General Discussion / Renter Survey - Globe and Mail
« on: December 09, 2021, 07:08:34 pm »

In an article in the Globe and Mail yesterday (December 8, 2021), a renter's survey was announced.  It's asking basic questions about renting, and might be of interest to some people here.

Here's a link to the article:  Renters of Canada, it’s time to vent

The survey is included at the bottom of the article, but for those who prefer just to do the survey, here's a link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-v4-ez-91-FQoWkN_vLPVgPkyOL3AgFBl48fWJYkZ4xI3CA/viewform

Note that they also provide an e-mail address for people to contact them "if you want your story as a renter [to be] heard"...  rluciw@globeandmail.com



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The Ontario Government has announced the creation of a so-called "Housing Affordability Task Force", and as you'd expect from Ford, he's populated the task force with rich bankers and investors, none of whom have any idea what's really going on for the average person, let alone actual poor people.

Here's a link to the announcement:

https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1001286/ontario-names-chair-and-members-of-housing-affordability-task-force

... and here are the members of the committee...  I've marked them RED or GREEN depending upon whether they are likely to have ever not immediately crossed the street upon seeing an approaching homeless person:

• Jake Lawrence, Chief Executive Officer and Group Head, Global Banking and Markets, Scotiabank, will serve as chair of the Task Force.

• Lalit Aggarwal, President, Manor Park Management, a real estate development and operating company.

• David Amborski, Professional Urban Planner and Professor, Ryerson University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, his specific interests include the area of municipal finance, land development, and land value capture tools.

• Julie Di Lorenzo, President, Diamante Urban Corp, operates one of the largest real estate companies in Canada.

• Andrew Garrett, Senior Principal, Real Estate, Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, is responsible for more than $11 billion Global Real Estate portfolio.

• Tim Hudak, Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Real Estate Association, Canada’s largest provincial real estate industry association representing 82,000 REALTORS®.

• Justin Marchand, Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services

• Ene Underwood, Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area

• David Wilkes, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Building Industry and Land Development Association, has served the majority of his career working for industry associations previously representing retail and consumer packaged goods industries.

I'm sure that we'll see lots of helpful and compassionate ideas and initiatives emerge from this exclusive bunch from the country-club set...



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Heat / Going to be cold again this Winter...
« on: September 14, 2021, 12:35:01 pm »
The temperature in my apartment is fine now, because of the warm weather.  But every winter my place is cold cold cold!  I have complained to my landlord in the past, but they don't do anything about it.  I mean, they sent the handyman around, who wanders away to the boiler room, but then the temperature doesn't improve.  Any suggestinos?



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Evictions / What's the Rent Bank?
« on: September 06, 2021, 02:28:56 pm »
My neighbor says that there's a Rent Bank?  What is it?

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