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The Landlord and Tenant Board (French: Commission de la location immobilière) is an adjudicative tribunal operating in the province of Ontario that provides dispute resolution of landlord and tenant matters under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006.
Rent regulation was first briefly introduced in Ontario under the National Housing Act 1944.After lobbying by business it was repealed in under a decade. The modern history of rent controls began in July 1975 when the Residential Premises Rent Review Act 1975 was enacted after the demand for rent controls became a major issue in the period leading to the 1975 provincial election. [2]
The bill made a number of amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 and the Housing Services Act, 2011, including giving landlords the power to offer tenants take-it-or-leave-it repayment plans, bypassing the Landlord and Tenant Board, and allowing landlords to make applications for arrears of rent up to twelve months after the tenant left the rental unit.
Ontario County is applying for a $1.5 million state grant that would help property owners convert vacant properties into rental units, the county's Office of Economic Development announced in a ...
In 1964 the Ontario Housing Corporation was created for the purpose of social housing management [9] From 1971 to 1976, the corporation provided subsidized mortgages to 1200 rental occupants enabling them to become homeowners. [9]
In addition, the province of Ontario's Fair Housing Plan set in place stricter rent controls and 16 measures to help combat the growth of the real estate market . [34] These remedies coincided with a slight dip in housing prices in 2017 [35] which some believed was the beginning of a housing crash. [36]