$7K rent increase from landlord shocks Toronto tenants

Sisters living in their midtown Toronto unit for three years were shocked to see their landlord increased their rent by $7K.

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[Landis_Grant]

The goal is to force renters with low wages onto the streets or live in their cars.

[louisetremblay]

Release the name of the landlord, and public shame them...

[brianlagace]

The landlord wants them out so he can sell

[alinasseri]

Can you imagine paying 120K a year for rent 😂 Canada 🇨🇦 is finished

[Olzme]

$9000 a month? I don't even make half of that in a month!

[theworldneedsmorehippies]

It was Doug Ford pc's that removed rent control from 2018 onwards. Another feather in his cap of atrocities. SAVE THE GREENBELT!

[farhannuh]

Move away from Canada period, this country is difficult to live in.

[JoseLopez-hpoo]

That is not a normal rent increase, clearly the landlord wants these tenants out and using the rent increase to push them out. Only hearing one side of the story. I can't see them getting 10K/month for a condo. Once they move, the place will rent for 3500 or 4K

[Louisa]

My building is increasing rents between $500 - $1000 PER MONTH. We will all be out on the street soon.

[danmarijanovic]

This is ford's version of making life affordable for Ontarians: ZERO oversight or limits to annual rent increases.

[petremitrov]

Australia imported too many foreign workers last 3 years. Non-skilled migrants. They are everywhere aound 370 000 according to news TV 9. They imported them for Corona Virus shortages of workers. They are staying here now doing nothing. The problem is that they have money. I don't know how, but they bid and increase rents everywhere. Problem can be solved but obviously this artificial increase of rents is welcome by the government. The Government has issued visas to NON skilled migrants and they don't send them back after Corona virus. So, pronlem is created and high bills for australian renters are not over. We will see, how this punishment to Australians will end!

[Diademic]

this should be illegal.. that's ridiculous

[ep]

Thank Doug Ford for changing rent control. He's had developers in his pocket for a while, not just for turning greenbelt into development land!!

[daveyjamesolson]

The landlord obviously wants them to leave. He owns the property and can what he wants with it.

[SusanA]

This is clearly a law that has to be overturned and the rent control must be on ALL buildings. What possible justification could the landlord give for a $7, 000 a month increase? Wrong on so many levels!

[TalesoftheMidnightrealm]

Canadians are getting exactly what they voted for.

[westbccoast]

Why is this even a thing in newer buildings ? This doesn't make any sense.

[billm.]

There should be rent controls on ALL properties in this province !! Dougy boy sure loves his investors. Gives them whatever they want !! SCREW the average citizen. As long as me & my RICH donors are comfortable, the rest can suffer !!

[Cristoforo]

Don’t pay your rent. It’ll take years to have your hearing at the tribunal. And if you pay some rent just before you’re evicted, the process goes back to square one and everything starts all over again, another few years of free rent. This is how our system works (or doesn’t work). This is the beauty of the Ford government, making life much more difficult for the folks of Ontario.

[jeycalc]

everyone talking about rent control, when that has nothing to do with it, its basic economics of demand and supply. with what we thought was 1.7, now 2.7 million immigrants comming this year, the demand for housing far outstrips housing. we will not be able to build our way out of the housing crisis for at least a decade if not two and that's only if immigration reduces to about 100k, even that is a lot.