NDP call for better rent controls

News Release
Ont. NDP

The McGuinty government must keep its promise to protect vulnerable tenants, NDP Housing Critic Michael Prue says. 
“Dalton McGuinty promised to repeal the misnamed Tenant Protection Act and replace it with real rent control in his first year in office. He broke that promise,” Prue said.
“The premier promised action within 365 days. It’s Day 774, and there is no action and no results in sight for Ontario’s beleaguered tenants,” he said.
Federation of Metro Tenants Association President Dan McIntyre says there is an urgent need to strengthen Ontario’s tenant protection legislation in three key areas:
·Vacancy decontrol must be repealed. Landlords must not be allowed a free hand  to raise rents when a rental unit is vacated;
·Tenants must be protected from arbitrary evictions by the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal. Far too many tenants are finding themselves out on the street because the eviction process is weighted so heavily in favour of landlords; and
·Landlords must be forced to keep their rental units in decent condition. Currently, far too many tenants are living in sub-standard conditions because landlords are not required to keep apartments in decent shape.
“For Ontario tenants, Dalton McGuinty’s broken rent control promise has meant more unfair rent increases, more arbitrary evictions and more shoddily maintained buildings. Sadly, tenant protection has gone the way of ‘I won’t raise your taxes’ and the hydro rate freeze - just another McGuinty broken promise,” Prue said.