History
What was the focus in getting rid of low-income rentals.
What is Luxury Rentals/Housing
Although its rent cap law was overturned in 2021, this city still maintains strong tenant protections and national rent controls.
What is Berlin
This tax is aimed at turning unoccupied housing units into available homes by penalizing long-term vacancies.
What is the vacancy tax?
Buildings exempt from rent control are listed under section 6.1 of the _______.
This fund would offer respite for low-income Ontarians who occasionally need help to pay rent.
What is Rent Bank
This European city is recognized for its stable social housing system, with over 60% of residents living in subsidized or municipally owned homes, supported by a city-owned land strategy.
What is Vienna?
This is the name of the 2019 Ontario government policy aimed at increasing housing supply and affordability.
What is More Homes, More Choice?
Vancouver uses this quick-to-deploy type of housing on underutilized land to temporarily shelter low-income and homeless residents.
What is modular housing?
Name one recommendation from the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario in the Tenant Duty Council Program.
What is any of the following recommendations: Provincial government must introduce legislation that limits rent gouging created through vacancy decontrol that is driving up rents beyond reach for the majority of tenants.
Provincial government must commit the majority of funds promised under the Community Housing Renewal Strategy to building and repairing social housing in Ontario.
Provincial government must introduce a new provincial law limiting demolitions, conversions and renovations of existing rental housing.
Provincial government must fund a provincial eviction prevention program that builds on the successful model of City of Toronto’s Eviction Prevention in the Community (EPIC) program.
Provincial government must strengthen maintenance and repair enforcement, making the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) more accessible to individuals and groups of tenants seeking rent reductions when their units fall into disrepair.
Provincial government must build a centralized data system registering rental buildings, with the support of the Innovation and Research fund of the National Housing Strategy.
This Canadian province introduced a 20% foreign buyers tax to reduce speculative demand in the real estate market.
What is British Columbia?
These are areas that lack active engagement, they remain empty and deprived of people, since they no longer present themselves as useful or appealing.
What are dead zones?
Buildings are not occupied on or before _______are exempt from rent control.
In what year did the federal government pass the responsibility of allocating funds for social housing to the provincial level?
What is 1999?
In this country, over 80% of residents live in government-built housing under a 99-year leasehold system designed to prevent speculation.
What is Singapore?
This is a government program that limits how much a landlord can charge for leasing a home or renewing a lease.
What is rent control?
The process by which a landlord evict a sitting tenant under the pretense of renovations that are so extensive they require a building permit and the unit to be vacant.
Renoviction