Whitby Council has authorised a movement to guard rental housing inventory within the city by making it harder for landlords to evict tenants or demolish rental housing models.
The movement authorised on February 3 directs city employees to research feasibility, advantages, and value of adopting a rental unit renovation by-law. This by-law would require landlords who subject an eviction discover to a tenant to demolish, restore, or renovate a unit to use to the city inside an outlined timeframe for a renovation licence previous to beginning work.
The movement seeks to guard reasonably priced housing models by making certain tenants perceive their proper to maneuver again into the unit as soon as renovations are full. It additionally proposes requiring landlords, throughout the renovation, to safe their tenant non permanent preparations which are corresponding to the tenant’s present unit or present the tenant compensation in lieu.
The movement additional directs employees to research a by-law and allowing program associated to the demolition or conversion to non-residential rental models of six or extra residential rental models.
The movement states that Canada is going through a housing scarcity with excessive demand for leases and a restricted provide of reasonably priced housing. It additionally refers to ‘renovictions’—a apply the place landlords provoke evictions below the guise of main renovations or enhancements—as an issue throughout Ontario resulting in housing instability.
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