‘Victory for tenant rights’: Halifax woman reacts to renoviction decision
Tenant’s $6,800 counterclaim for compensation denied
A woman has won her months-long fight to stay in her Halifax apartment.
Stacey Gomez has lived in the same apartment since 2017. In March, she and the rest of the tenants in her seven-unit building received a letter from the landlord in March asking them to leave for renovations.
Gomez believed her landlord, Marcus Ranjbar, was trying to “renovict” her, so she didn’t sign the form. Renoviction is a term for tenants being asked to leave while renovations take place on a unit which can then be rented for much higher rates.
The matter was referred to the Residential Tenancy Office which released its decision Monday.
The office rejected Ranjbar’s request to terminate Gomez’s tenancy and ordered the landlord to pay the tenant $837.91. …[Read More]