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Doug Ford Government Proposes to Allow Tenant Evictions when Leases Are up in New Bill
Bill 60 aims to balance tenant protections with landlord flexibility by ending indefinite leases and unlocking up to hundreds of thousands of new rental units, officials said.
- On Thursday, Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Rob Flack tabled Bill 60, the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, as the Ford government introduced a wide-ranging bill to change landlord-tenant rules in Ontario.
- Faced with landlords who are holding units vacant, Attorney General Doug Downey said the government believes security-of-tenure rules may no longer be working under current evergreen month-to-month leases.
- Other concrete proposals would end the compensation requirement when landlords or immediate family move back in if tenants receive 120 days notice and eliminate evergreen month-to-month leases, risking rent control certainty.
- If passed, Bill 60 would amend more than a dozen existing major laws, and the province says when rental units become vacant, prices can increase by any amount, impacting the rental market.
- The government says these shifts could unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of new rental units, and officials said they will consult widely on security-of-tenure rules.
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