Consultation Launched on Rental Housing
Ontario's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing has begun consultations
aimed at reforming the Province's laws and regulations governing the relationship
between landlords and tenants. A consultation paper has been published
to help guide the process and frame some of the key issues.
There are three ways to provide input into the process:
- MPP Brad Duguid,
Parliamentary Assistant to Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John
Gerretsen will be conducting town hall meetings in ten Ontario communities,
- A questionnaire
has been created that is available in ten languages, or can be completed
on-line, and
- Formal written responses can also be submitted.
The government has indicated it intends to replace the much-criticized Tenant Protection Act with a law it says will better balance the interests of landlords and tenants. The consultation covers issues like rent increases, maintenance, dispute resolution, as well as the demolition and conversion of rental housing.
Input to the consultation will be accepted until June 15th.
In a related development, the Province also introduced legislation to suspend the automatic two percent rent increase built into the formula that determines the annual rent increase guideline, pending the implementation of the government's new rental housing law.
For more information please visit:
http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/userfiles/html/nts_1_16663_1.html
and
http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_16937_1.html
Source: United Ways of Ontario's Government Relations Bulletin - Issue dd April 30, 2004
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