Ontario Tenants Rights
Ontario Tenants Rights
This website is a guide to Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Act, the Residential Tenancies Act, to tenants' rights, social justice, and rental housing issues such as finding apartments for rent, high-rise safety and security, pests and mold.
landlord and tenant, rental housing, rents, vacancy rates
Documents are grouped under the following categories:
• Landlord and Tenant Law:
• Ontario Landlord and Tenant Questions and Answers: Tenant Law Questions: Ontario Tenants Most Asked Questions and Answers
• Residential Tenancies Act
• Canadian and Ontario Laws and Legislation
Housing and Tenant Information:
• Tenants Association Organizing Guide
• Reports: Housing Statistics, Studies and Reports: Renters Rights and Housing Information for Ontario, Canada: Housing and Poverty Reports
• Rent Controls in Ontario
• Other Housing Information Links
• Tenant Help and Lobbying: Rights and Advocacy Groups
• Rental Housing History in Ontario and Canada: Tenant and Housing History Archives: Links to articles dating back to 1950
Current Renters News and Issues:
• Tenant Rights and Social Justice: Renters News: Tenant Rights and Social Justice: Includes Government Rent Increase Guidelines, College and University Students and Housing, Utility costs and Rents, Homelessness and Lack of Affordable Housing, Lack of Federal Housing Funding
• Renters Municipal Issues: Municipal tenant, renter, housing issues
Apartment Living:
• Finding an Apartment: Apartment Search/Finder: Housing: Apartments for rent Ontario Canada
• Tenant Health: Toxic Mold, Cockroaches and Tenant Health: Includes Air Pollution, Bed Bugs, Lead Paint, Mould, Pesticides, Asthma and Cockroaches
• Apartment/Tenant Security and Safety
• Utility Costs: Ontario Hydro, Natural Gas: Your Utility Costs: Ontario Hydro Electricity Prices, Water and Natural Gas Energy Rates
Government:
• Ontario Government & Cities
• Tenant Information in Other Provinces/Territories
• Elections and Issues: Your Vote Counts
Miscellaneous:
• Other Useful Links: Activists and Community Groups
• Tenant, Housing, Poverty Events
The website also includes the section Community Information, which includes links to organizations and tenants resources for selected communities across Ontario.
The website offers links to relevant websites, as well as documents available free of charge in full text in HTML and PDF format.
Contact information
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