Provincial Actions & Solutions
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Codes & Standards:

• Building Code Updates: Setting performance, state of repair and resilience standards for existing housing, phased-in in a stepped process over a 10-year period;
  • Work with organizations related to safety authorities, such as the ESA in Ontario, to set standards
• Review AGIs: For jurisdictions with rent control, review "Above Guideline Increases" to ensure that AGIs are not being used unfairly
• Reframing AGI guidelines such that meeting the base housing standards does not qualify for rent increases, nor do energy retrofits.
  
• Rent Control: For jurisdictions without any protections, introduce Rent Control policies to prevent unfair and/or sudden rent escalations

Federal Actions & Solutions:

• Regulate financial actors (Landlords & REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)) to ensure that they uphold their obligations to tenants in properties they own, and consider the financial interest and protection of their tenants in their business plans.

• Funding:
  • Support owners' engagement in repair and renewal work through direct and indirect financial support, such as loans, grants, tax incentives;
  • Stop all grant programs to developers/owners who are displacing tenants;
    • Programs need to ensure recipients are not renovicting / demo-victing sitting tenants.