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Rent / Rents hit All-Time High!
« on: September 24, 2023, 11:33:41 am »

There's an article on ctv news saying that rents have hit an all-time high (a fact that would normally be shocking, but loses some of it's bite given that rents have been increasing higher and higher to ever more extreme hights for years!)

Rental prices in Canada increased to their highest in 30 years

And here's the data from rentals.ca  September 2023 Rentals.ca Report  the avergae rent in Toronto has hit $2620...

Expensive times!


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with rents so hi these days I think that this article might be helpful to some;

What you need to know about living with roommates in Ontario



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All rental units rented for the first time after after November 15 2018, have no rent control.  This change was recently introduced into the law by the provincial conservative government.

This removal of rent control is causing big problems for the renters who live in those apartments...

CTVNews: Ontario tenants share stories of living with no rent control. Here's what it's like


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I saw this article on CBC about the ombudsmans's report

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ombudsman-report-landlord-tenant-board-1.6830181

Does anyone have a link to the actual report?




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General Discussion / Re: Landlord issues
« on: March 07, 2023, 10:57:49 pm »

Christy, what you have described sounds terrible!

But I am so glad to hear that you have a paralegal helping you.  What did your paralegal say about the harassment?  Is it worth filing a complaint at the landlord and tenant board?

Thaks for sharing your story.  Let us know how it goes.


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From the Financial Post:  Canada's biggest city challenged to confront its 'renoviction' problem


“rents in Ontario are increasing at the fastest year-over-year pace since the late 1980s, according to Statistics Canada data. Rent jumped 5.4 per cent in June from a year earlier, slower than the 5.6-per-cent gain posted in May, but otherwise the biggest increase since the fall of 1989.”

“‘REITS have caused our city to become commoditized,’ Toronto councillor Mike Layton said during a debate on Bond’s report on July 22, referring to real-estate investment trusts. ‘The door is wide open for ‘renovictions’ and we need to shut it. When the rent doubles, it’s a huge loss for our city,’ Layton continued.”

“In Ontario, landlord applications to evict tenants for reasons other than failing to pay rent increased by nearly 100 per cent between 2014 and 2020, while applications to raise rent on current tenants beyond what’s allowed under rent control rules rose by nearly 40 per cent, according to data from the Landlord and Tenant Board.”



https://financialpost.com/real-estate/the-renoviction-debate-comes-to-toronto-as-officials-call-for-stronger-rent-protections/wcm/9dc287e8-81fc-45ee-8d64-49d685c020e9/amp/



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Landlord and Tenant Board's 'digital first' system harms vulnerable renters: advocate

Lots of good pro-renter news on the CTV website today:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/landlord-and-tenant-board-s-digital-first-system-harms-vulnerable-renters-advocate-1.5968789


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https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-increases-amount-landlords-can-raise-rent-by-highest-level-in-a-decade-1.5968069


CTV News reports:

"Ontario is more than doubling the maximum rate a landlord can raise a tenant's rent next year – marking the highest rent increase guideline in the province in a decade.

On Wednesday, the province announced Ontario’s rent increase guideline for 2023 is 2.5 per cent.

Previously, landlords were allowed to raise rent by 1.2 per cent in 2022, following a rent freeze that rolled out in 2020 to help Ontarians through the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The last time Ontario’s rent increase guidelines reached 2.5 per cent was in 2013."


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Akelius / Re: Garbage chutes shut down
« on: June 30, 2022, 10:06:43 am »
Take some pictures and post them online somewhere.

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Rent / Toronto Star: Toronto tenants are caught in the rent trap
« on: March 22, 2022, 04:34:29 pm »
I saw this article on the Toronto Star website, and I think that it makes several important points...  lots of us are stuck in apartments that are not ill-suited to us, but we can't move because renting another place at "market rents" is extremely expensive!

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/03/04/a-tower-divided-soaring-toronto-rents-have-led-longtime-tenants-of-this-weston-building-to-hold-onto-too-small-homes-while-new-neighbours-barely-scrape-by.html

Katie

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Safe and Affordable Housing Now

The Ontario NDP Party has a Petition asking that the government implement several things that would help tenants' rights enormously:

https://www.jessicabellmpp.ca/housing

We the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as follows:

  • Reverse the recent elimination of rent control protections for new rental units.
  • End Vacancy Decontrol: Landlords should not be able to increase rents to whatever amount they want when a tenant moves out.
  • End Above the Guideline Increases: Repairs and maintenance are a landlord’s responsibility and they should pay for them.
  • Strengthen the Residential Tenancies Act to protect tenants from reno-victions and illegal evictions.

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Rent / Lawyer Blogs about Jan 1 Rent Increase
« on: October 05, 2021, 10:26:33 am »

Informative opinion from a lawyer:

https://www.markhabiblawyers.com/news/2021-the-year-of-the-rent-freeze

Quotes from this blog article:

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The rent freeze does not mean landlords can't give notices in 2021. It just means that increases can't take effect in 2021. For example, a landlord could give a notice in September 2021 for a rent increase to take effect on January 1, 2022.

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There are some ways that rents can be increased in 2021 despite the freeze.

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Although the rent freeze is in effect for all of 2021, not all tenants will get a full 12 months of protection.


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General Discussion / Re: Berlin Kicking-out Landlords!!
« on: October 02, 2021, 09:59:16 am »

We could hold our own referendum, like these people are doing:   https://referendumcanada.ca/

FYI, I found this Wiki page on Canadian referendums.




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