Interesting times in Ontario:
Ontario legislators passed Bill 60 on Monday, a sweeping omnibus bill designed to accelerate housing supply and reform the province’s rental-market infrastructure.
The legislation moves the needle on affordability by overhauling how landlords and developers navigate tenancy rules and development approvals.
Housing minister Rob Flack framed the changes as essential to restoring market balance. “With more supply comes lower rents,” he said during the final legislative vote.
The bill targets bottlenecks across multiple fronts: accelerating Landlord and Tenant Board hearings, standardizing development charges across municipalities, and streamlining zoning approvals.
Not everyone is happy. If you live in Ontario and can share more insight, it would be greatly appreciated.
The only thing that will return sanity to Ontario’s housing market is if (municiapl, provincial, federal) gov’t gets the hell out of it entirely & lets the free market reign. Anything short of that is pissing into the wind.
The only thing that will return sanity to Ontario’s housing market is if (municipal, provincial, federal) gov’t gets the hell out of it entirely & lets the free market reign. Anything short of that is pissing into the wind.
^^^ absolutely ^^^
And speaking of interfering with the free market … how about the government STOP enabling renters to avoid paying rent. When Developers can no longer pay their mortgages because of government interference … err, renters “rights” … they just STOP developing … and a housing shortage ensues. The only people who don’t understand this are communists.
Har har,”Government helps”.
While not living in Ontario I can predict the result of these rule changes with near 100% accuracy.
Fewer rental spaces available.
Since government moved in to rule and regulate private transactions,the result has been obvious.
Exponential growth in Homelessness.
Fewer landlords,because the landlords have been punished to the point they have abandoned ..
That capitol gains tax on second homes has made sure even fewer homes are available.
The “Renters Protection racket,government rules again,has made evicting a deadbeat or nasty renter,near impossible.
Fewer houses built as those who would have been landlords have left the market.
So more bankrupt builders.
Fewer houses overall.
Exponential costs to build to the new codes,safety first..
Look back two generations..recall what was considered adequate housing in 1960….
Try building that now,even off grid on your own land.
The future,living in an RV under camo nets,deep in a national park.
I’ve been an architectural designer for 38 years. 3 years ago, I designed a 98 suite, 4 storey apartment building to be built in Edmonton. It took 1.5 YEARS to get the building permit and the contractor built it in under 12 months. And many of those pricks in the planning department are still “working” from home. This is part of the problem….no supervisor to look in if the employees are actually working, hence the glacial pace in getting permits through. Too much effort put into “green” initiatives and perpetual land acknowledgements.
Hard to believe it’s as bad in Canada as it is here in N.CA … but there you go. And don’t forget the angry neighbors who fight any project remotely near their homes. I had a simple renovation project of converting/reconstructing an existing barn into a home office/ADU … and had a group of 50 neighbors spread rumors (on Facquebook) of my client building it to rent out as a “conference center” … 50 people showed up to speak against a simple renovation on a huge 18 acre property with no other home remotely near it. It was disgusting … and the city Planners believed their lies … and made my client take out a bedroom and a bathroom (there were only two ea. to begin with).
I resigned my commission, my clients abandoned the project, sold the property and moved to a more friendly city. All wise choices. But the angry, irrational, NIMBY, liar neighbors “won”.
https://www.greaterfool.ca/2025/11/23/on-sale-today-only/
As a (unfortunately due to impossible housing prices) perpetual renter in Ontario, I have to say some of it doesn’t look good, namely making personal use evictions easier. Those are already massively abused by unscrupulous landlords who lie about personal use to kick tenants out so they can raise rent more than the allowable amount for lease renewals.
Speeding up LTB hearings would be great though, if it actually happens. As it is, it now takes more than a year after applying to get a hearing. It’s basically an almost useless way of getting a landlord/tenant dispute resolved.
“Those are already massively abused by unscrupulous landlords who lie about personal use to kick tenants out so they can raise rent more than the allowable amount for lease renewals. ”
Because the amount you can raise the rent is less than the rate of inflation, AND they raised the interest rates to the moon after keeping them low for a very long time. Therefore Mr. Eeeevile Landlord is losing a f-ton of money on his tenants.
But he still has to pay his TAXES, and he still has to pay his MORTGAGE, and he still has to fix all the broken sh*t in that apartment, and the roof, furnace, appliances, and so forth.
So yeah, no kidding he wants to raise the rent. What a b@$t@rd, eh?
Too many tenants are gaming the system in not paying rent knowing that it’ll take the courts 12 months and much aggravation for the landlord to finally give them the boot.
Wow…when I read something like the blurb above, it becomes apparent how de-sensitized we have become to invasive government overreach. Zoning laws, Tenant/Landlord Boards, tenancy rules, development approvals, rental market infrastructure, Housing minister. And, that’s just the tip of the ice berg to address:
Hey, I own this place and I’ll rent it to you.
Amen to that.
Been a landlord most of my adult life, and refuse to be so again, as kkkomunism has taken over in most western countries. And fatso douggy is one!
It’ll have very little effect, since the cities will impose their own laws on landlords, including registration, inspections, bans on renovictions, etc.
https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/permits-licences-bylaws/renovictions-bylaw-development/
for example
If you are a Landlord, take this advice from someone with almost 30 years of property management experience, including residential.
Serve an eviction notice as a last resort because it forces you into dealing with them under the Landlord and Tenant Act.
A better way is to use seizure and forfeiture laws instead to get your rent. Serve a Notice of Default instead, giving them 48 hours to rectify the contract breach. If they don’t, you can have the Sheriff seize their goods. It’s very effective. And all legal under contract law.
Your local Landlord and Tenant board should have resources for Landlord’s including Sheriff services.
“Your local Landlord and Tenant board should have resources for Landlord’s including Sheriff services.”
Should, but doesn’t. Trying to get the Sheriff to show up is a fun process. “Sorry, we cancelled your appointment today because reasons which we’re not going to tell you, and next appointment is in two months. Yes, we know you waited two months for this appointment. Yes, we know you have a court order. Yes, we know the judge ordered us to show up. We don’t care. Have a nice day.”
So expect to see the number of properties available for rent decrease sharply in the next few years. Nobody -has- to be a landlord, right? You can just sell it.
Nobody can sell right now either, because their properties are underwater