Should stratas have the right to ban smoking in B.C. multi-unit housing?

More and more stratas are banning the practice of smoking in properties across B.C.

Strata corporations can create a bylaw to limit or ban smoking altogether and that can include the strata lot as well as the common and limited common property.

Some B.C. residents have taken the fight for their right to smoke in their homes to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, but health advocates want the province to adopt laws that would ban smoking in multi-unit housing.

Clean Air Coalition B.C. says it would like to see the following changes made to legislation that would:

• Require landlords and strata corporations to disclose the smoking status of the building and location of smoking units to prospective tenants and buyers.
• Amend the Residential Tenancy Act so that landlords can make their buildings completely smoke-free without written consent of tenants.
• Make all B.C. Housing properties smoke-free.
• Change the Strata Property Act so that all new developments are non-smoking by default.
• Offer incentives to developers to designate new buildings as smoke-free.

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