Low Income, Housing & Tenant Rights

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Hamilton, Ont. recently passed a bylaw that would require landlords to obtain a licence in order to proceed with repairs that require the ending of a tenancy to do so.

Some Ontario landlords are sitting on thousands of dollars of interest accrued by rental deposits and in some cases, also asking renters to fork over cash as often as every year in a process some advocates are calling "double-dipping."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjP8AWD_Ik A Good Place to Call Home Housing co-ops are in every neighbourhood in the city. A co-op can be a medium size apartment building or townhouses. People who live in co-ops come from every walk of life. They are people with different backgrounds, va

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Your landlord must give the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) a declaration or affidavit from the person who wants to move into your rental unit. A

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Learn about the temporary changes to residential rental processes, and where landlords and tenants can get more help.

Welcome to ONTA ONTA helps tenants and landlords become informed about the rules and regulations found within the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code. If you’re looking for rentals in Toronto, check out our friends over at Toronto Home Zone. Please have a look around, check out our About Page if […]

Declaring that homelessness and housing insecurity is the result of "a structural failure of a country that has refused to make safe and affordable

Food bank usage is expected to see a 60 per cent increase in 2023, according to a new report from food rescue organization Second Harvest. A number of factors are driving the increased demand, including inflation and wages that aren’t keeping up with the cost of living.

Republicans have spent generations gutting investments in public universities, and students are worse off for it.

Recessions, debt, soaring home prices, climbing mortgage rates: Millennials have been screwed over by the housing market, and the future looks bleak.

I propose a portion of every rent payment be considered an “investment” in the property. The consequences would be far-reaching.

In many major metropolitan areas across the United States, there are far more vacant homes than people experiencing homelessness. This is true in New York City, it’s true in the Bay Area, and as our new report shows, it’s true in Los Angeles. Here, there are 93,000 vacant homes compared to just over 41,000 unhoused people. Our report, the product of a collaboration between UCLA School of Law and the community-based nonprofits Strategic Actions for a Just Economy and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, is perhaps the most detailed look yet at the characteristics of residential vacancies situated in the broader speculative housing market in any city in the United States.

A debt crisis was inevitable, but covid-19 has made it immediate.