To help you better understand your rights as tenants or to learn about housing issues and information related to affordable housing in Ontario, check out the following links to more organizations.
Federation of Metro Tenants Association (FMTA)
The Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations (FMTA) is a non-profit organization which advocates for better rights for tenants.
Community Legal Clinics
Legal Aid Ontario funds 79 legal clinics that provide free services for people with low income. Clinics provide legal help for problems relating to basic needs: income, housing, and human rights. Services include representation in courts and tribunals, legal advice, law reform activities, and referrals to other sources of assistance in your community.
Landlord and Tenant Board
The Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) resolves: disputes between residential landlords and tenants and eviction applications filed by non-profit housing co-operatives. The LTB also provides information about its practices and procedures and the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants under the Residential Tenancies Act.
JusticeNet
JusticeNet is a not-for-profit service helping people in need of legal expertise, whose income is too high to access legal aid and too low to afford standard legal fees.
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Safety Resources Library. The following library includes more information and resources on how to improve safety and risk management for individuals experiencing gender-based violence and abuse. This library includes both web-based resources and platforms as well as mobile-applications that can be downloaded on a cellular device such as a smartphone or tablet.
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
CLEO is a specialty legal clinic whose work focuses on providing information to people who face barriers to accessing the justice system, including income, disability, literacy, and language. As a community legal clinic and part of Ontario’s legal aid system, they work in partnership with other legal clinics and community organizations across the province.