Disputes between landlords and tenants are dealt with using provincial statues often criticized as too favourable toward landlords, even if an illegal eviction amounts to criminal fraud.
A Toronto councillor wants more criminal investigations into bad landlords, especially those who illegally evict tenants.
Coun. Josh Matlow says the city should expand the authority of its apartment bylaw officers, who inspect rental buildings for its RentSafeTO program, to collect evidence of breaches of the Residential Tenancies Act and give it to police so they can pursue fraud cases, such as renovictions or bogus own-use evictions.
A study of five communities near new UP, Finch West or Eglinton LRT stops found four saw higher eviction rates between 2010 and…
Divisional Court ruled CARPREIT should have removed AGI increase after 10 years.
As Toronto’s largest landlord faces growing security demands, it has not met target call response times, a new report says.
NEW YORK: On a recent weeknight, three tenants of an aging Bronx building were trading apartment horror stories inside a packed…
TORONTO - A handful of Toronto community groups buying properties across the city in an effort to keep rents low say the upcoming…
The latest instalment in the Star’s series asking notable Torontonians and readers what they would do if they had the city’s top…
