What is rent control, anyway?
Part 1: Rent control, rent freezes, vacancy controls—the terms can be hard to keep track of. This is your reference guide.
Paulina Vargatoth is a research analyst, policy enthusiast, and former research assistant at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario Office.
Part 1: Rent control, rent freezes, vacancy controls—the terms can be hard to keep track of. This is your reference guide.
Part 2: In theory, Canada’s most populous province has protection for tenants. In practice, landlords can find lots of ways to hike up rents.
Part 3: Landlords systematically use AGI applications to bypass provincial guidelines
Part 4: Landlords and developers love scientific-sounding arguments against rent control. There’s just one problem—they’re not true.
Part 5: The policy solutions to skyrocketing rents are quite straightforward—but enacting them means taking on the power of landlords and developers
Part 6: Tenants in Ontario have resources available to defend themselves against landlords—and against bad-faith anti-tenant arguments. Here are a few of them.
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