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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was first briefly introduced in Ontario under the National Housing Act 1944.After lobbying by business it was repealed in under a decade.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]
Pressure mounts for Ontario to extend rent controls to all tenants by Susan Pigg (Toronto Star, 31 May 2013) Ontario NDP wants to close rent control loophole by William Wolfe-Wylie (Postmedia News, 4 June 2013) Gilderbloom, J. I., and J. P. Markham. 1996. "Moderate rent control: sixty cities over 20 years." Journal of Urban Affairs 18(4):409-10.
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Rent control laws define which rental units are affected, and may only cover larger complexes, or units older than a certain date. To attempt to not disincentivise investment in new housing stock, rent control laws often exempt new construction. For example, San Francisco's Rent Stabilization Ordinance exempts all units built after 1979. [63]
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Hence, in San Francisco only construction older than 1979 can be rent controlled, and older than 1980 in Oakland and Berkeley, the years those cities passed their rent control laws. [48] [49] In the City of Los Angeles, the date is October, 1978. [50] [51] These exemptions, however, may leave most of a city's total rental stock under rent control.
In Ontario, a person may be represented by an individual licensed by the Law Society of Ontario such as a lawyer or a paralegal. [7] There are other exemptions for unpaid representatives such as direct employees of the landlord or in the case of a tenant a friend or family member.