Landlord And Tenant Board

• Ontario caps 2024 rent increases at 2.5%; does not apply to newer units

  Most Ontario landlords will be able to increase rent by up to 2.5 per cent next year.

  Canada

  Jun 30, 2023
  
• ‘Excruciating delays’ at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board: Ombudsman report

  Ontario's ombudsman says a backlog of cases at the Landlord and Tenant Board has grown and it's taking an average of 7 or 8 months for a hearing to be scheduled.

  Canada

  May 4, 2023
  
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• Ontario government to increase renter protections, address tribunal backlog, housing minister says

  Ontario says it will invest millions to deal with backlog of tribunal cases between tenants and landlords and provide additional measures to protect renters against renovictions.

  Canada

  Apr 5, 2023
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• Rent control: What tenants should know as rental prices surge across Canada  

  'Landlords use a variety of strategies and tactics to push and price tenants out of their homes,' said one community legal worker in Toronto, Ont.

  Canada

  Jan 28, 2023
• Tribunal evicts Ontario senior from his own home on leased land in retirement community

  The Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board has ordered the eviction of a man, 82, with mental illness from his home owned on land leased within an adult lifestyle community.

  Consumer

  Jul 12, 2022
• Landlord out $50,000 after tribunal rules to evict tenant, but she still hasn’t moved

  A landlord who won the right to evict his tenant is still paying her bills and struggling to have her removed after spending nearly $50,000 through a 16-month-long process.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2022
• Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board’s ‘digital first’ system harms vulnerable renters: advocate

  The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario says the complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal on behalf of a 77-year-old woman in North Bay, Ont.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2022
• Ontario raises maximum allowable rent increase at 1.2% for 2022 as rent freezes end

  The Ontario government says it has set its rent increase guideline for 2022 at 1.2 per cent.

  Canada

  Jan 1, 2022
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• Tenant advocacy group calls on Hamilton council to implement bylaw to stop ‘renovictions’

  A rally in front of Hamilton city hall that called for a bylaw to prevent tenants from 'renovictions' coincided with Friday's city council meeting.

  Aug 21, 2020
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• Thousands of Ontario renters brace for evictions as Landlord and Tenant Board reopens Tuesday

  "It's no coincidence that she served these two eviction notices recently... it's clear that she intends to evict us because the eviction moratorium has been lifted."

  News

  Aug 4, 2020