LANDLORD LICENSING & RENTSAFE TO The city needs to strengthen RentsafeTO and migrate to a full Landlord Licensing program. [...] We want to see RentSafe move to a ratio similar to the proposed ratio for rooming houses. [...] The city can then use this account to do the needed repairs themselves! NO TENANT DISPLACEMENT The City of Toronto needs to fund: The creation of strong protections against renovictions putting the onus on the landlords to ensure tenants can move back into their unit at the same rent, without being out of pocket for moving expenses and protecting the affordable rental stock in the city. [...] New developments like Downsview must have 30% set aside for deeply affordable permanent, rental housing Tax all vacant units - happy to see the vacant unit tax increased to 3%, next step is to increase it to 5% and include all vacant rental units in multi -residential buildings COMMUNITY FUNDING Community programs should be affordable to low- and moderate-income people everywhere, not just afforda. [...] AND THE FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW! MATH ON THE HOUSING HEMORRHAGE In the past 5 years alone, the GTA lost 27% of its private rental apartments that were affordable to households earning less than $60,000 a year.
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