Rent Increase

• Popular East Vancouver restaurant to shutter after 120% rent hike

  Charles Tsang opened Liberté Café on Vaness Avenue near Boundary Road in Vancouver's Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood in 2020. 

  Economy

  Jan 14
  
• B.C. caps allowable rent increase for 2025 at 3%

  Starting Jan. 1, landlords will be able to raise rents by a maximum of three per cent, which is down from 3.5 per cent for this current year.

  Canada

  Aug 26, 2024
  
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• ‘I will fight to the end’: This tenant is challenging a rent spike, urges others to follow

  A man from N.B. is vowing to fight a spike to his rent, which he says is being introduced without proper notice. Chris Thompson is urging others to learn their rights.

  Consumer

  Jul 30, 2024
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• Manitoba government plans new rules for rent increases and incentives for new housing

  Some Manitoba landlords may have a harder time raising rents above inflation and could be ordered to phase-in increases over years if a bill introduced Thursday becomes law.

  Politics

  May 23, 2024
• ‘Do I start packing?’: Manitoba renters struggle to keep up, demand change

  Rent increases have pushed more than a few into survival mode. Advocates and tenants demand action, saying Manitoba could fix this crisis, which is leaving many without a home.

  Economy

  Sep 26, 2023
• ‘Very critical’: Halifax university students returning to class with empty stomachs, wallets

  The Dalhousie University food bank has seen an increased demand in the number of students looking for assistance, with an expected rise this fall

  Economy

  Sep 5, 2023
• Federal government should have stayed in housing game, minister says

  Housing Minister Sean Fraser says the federal government should have never got out of the housing business even as high-income professionals struggle to find affordable housing.

  Politics

  Aug 14, 2023
• ‘It is not right’: Some Toronto tenants go on rent strike to protest increases

  Beverley Henry paid $900 a month in rent when she first moved into her one-bedroom Toronto apartment nearly a decade ago but that amount has since climbed to more than $1,300.

  Crime

  Jul 28, 2023
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• As Manitoba’s rent increase guideline goes up, tenants and advocates call for action

  The Manitoba government has set the annual rent increase guideline to three per cent and community advocates fear it will have big impacts on low and fixed income neighbourhoods.

  Canada

  Jul 24, 2023
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• 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