Rental costs are out of control in cities across the country. We broke down what you need to earn to afford an apartment in every neighborhood in Canada.

Rents are increasingly disconnected from wages. Governments need to strengthen rent control in response.

L’Ontario dépense de moins en moins pour les écoles

Combien d’employés votre conseil scolaire a-t-il perdu ces dernières années?

Ontario is spending less and less on schools

How many staff has your school board lost in the past few years?

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.