Bylaws can protect tenants from some renovictions. Can Halifax enact its own?
Hamilton has a bylaw intended to stop certain renovictions, other Ontario cities pursuing similar bylaws
A bylaw introduced this year in Hamilton has made it more difficult for landlords to order so-called renovictions — the act of evicting tenants to renovate a building and then increasing the rent charged to new tenants. Other Ontario cities, including Toronto, are pursuing similar bylaws.
Dalhousie Legal Aid says the Halifax Regional Municipality should consider doing the same to protect tenants from loopholes in Nova Scotia’s Residential Tenancies Act that it says landlords often exploit.
CBC Radio’s Information Morning guest host Preston Mulligan spoke with Sydnee Blum, a Dalhousie Legal Aid worker and eviction prevention co-ordinator, about Ontario bylaws and why Halifax hasn’t tried to introduce similar rules. …[Continue Reading]