Protecting Tenants from Renovictions

Ontario is taking steps to support renters and rental housing providers by increasing the number of adjudicators and staff at the Landlord and Tenant Board to speed up decision timeframes, as well as strengthening a broad range of tenant protections.

Ontario is investing $6.5 million to appoint an additional 40 adjudicators and hire five staff to improve service standards and continue to reduce active applications and decision timeframes at the Landlord and Tenant Board. This increase more than doubles of the number of full-time adjudicators at the Landlord Tenant Board

We’re taking steps to make life easier for renters, with proposed changes that would enhance tenants’ rights to install air conditioning in their units.

This government is also proposing to strengthen protections against evictions due to renovations, demolitions and conversions, as well as those for landlord’s own use.

In 2022, More Homes Built Faster introduced changes to reduce barriers for home builders to replace older rental apartments with larger, more modern rental buildings. We’re consulting on changes to create a balanced framework governing municipal rental replacement by-laws that could help protect affordable housing while encouraging the revitalization of older, deteriorating buildings.

The province is proposing to double the maximum fines for offences under the Residential Tenancies Act (such as bad faith renovictions) to $100,000 for individuals and $500,000 for corporations. Ontario has the highest maximum fines in Canada.

In 2022, Ontario broke ground on nearly 15,000 new purpose-built rentals, a 7.5 per cent increase from 2021 and the highest number on record. 

Learn more: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1002902/ontario-strengthening-protections-for-tenants