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State of Emergency

Please note that our Tenant Duty Counsel (TDC) is not operational in the GTA at…

We got the Right to Housing. Now What?

The National Housing Strategy Act became the law of Canada when Bill C-97 received royal…

A Missed Opportunity To Build More Affordable Rentals

On May 2, 2019, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing announced Ontario’s Housing Supply…

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Legal Aid Budget Cuts Will Hurt Ontario Tenants

The provincial government’s drastic cut to funding for Legal Aid Ontario means Ontarians will have…

Speeding Up Evictions Will Not Build Rental housing

Landlord groups have made two very specific proposals to change the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA)…

Ontario Government Goes Back to Failed Rent Control Policy

Last week, Ontario’s Minister of Finance announced that rent control rules will no longer protect tenants that…

Ontario’s Social Assistance System: 100 days to fix it or to break it?

Eleven years ago, I started work at the Income Security Advocacy Centre, a legal clinic…

Bill 5 Will Weaken Toronto’s Democracy

Tenants all over Ontario need to be concerned about the attack on Toronto citizen’s democratic…

Where will we live?

Renters living in Ontario, especially in Toronto, desperately need more affordable rental housing options. In…

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Making Sense of Toronto’s Rental Housing Market

The Tenant Issues Committee at the City of Toronto recently considered a new report on…