Housing & Homelessness

Rental housing platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Rental housing.

ONDP

  • Work with the federal government to increase funding for the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which assists with rental costs

    "More housing benefits that help people move out of shelters, into homes. Doug Ford has withheld funding for programs like the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, allowing shelters to overflow. We’ll work with the Federal government to boost the program and help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Provide more protections for renters

    "Stop people from losing their homes by bringing forward real protections for renters and doubling social assistance rates so people can better keep up with the cost of housing." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

    "Crack down on renovictions, demovictions and other illegal tactics. We’ll beef up the rules, fix the Landlord and Tenant board and we’ll stop the Conservative and Liberal plan to evict people faster." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Double social assistance rates
  • Attach rent control to the unit, so that landlords can't raise rents between tenants

    "We’ll attach rent control to the unit to stop landlords from jacking up rent between tenants - removing the incentive for landlords to use unethical tactics to squeeze out existing tenants so they can raise the rent on the next one." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Remove the rent control exemption for units built after 2018

    "We’ll close the unfair loophole that exempts units built after 2018." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Allow more housing, including fourplexes and four-storey multiplexes in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors

    "Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Limit short-term rentals like Airbnb to one's primary residence

    "Limit short-term rentals (eg: Airbnb) to one’s primary residence, protecting the supply of long-term rental housing" — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

We don't have any Liberal policies on Rental housing.
We don't have any Green policies on Rental housing.

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