Proposals made to protect tenants
Québec solidaire is proposing a bill to freeze rents in 2021 and are also supporting another proposal to make it illegal to evict tenants in wintertime.
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Ephraim 19:59 on 2021-02-11 Permalink
Let me get this right, you could stop paying your rent in November and the landlord would get NOTHING and not be able to evict you until April. And they expect that landlords are going to want to continue to rent apartments with no payments for up to 5 months and no way to get rid of them. And they don’t think this will be abused? I mean, they already abuse the fact that it takes so long to evict people… expect even less apartments available on annual leases if they pass this.
Kate 20:24 on 2021-02-11 Permalink
Hydro-Quebec can’t cut you off in winter for non-payment. It’s an extension of the same idea.
walkerp 21:06 on 2021-02-11 Permalink
@ephraim, fewer apartments, not less.
Ephraim 23:02 on 2021-02-11 Permalink
@Kate – Right… and people run off without paying. And who are they stealing from, Hydro Quebec or you and me? Because Hydro Quebec is… you and me.
dhomas 01:37 on 2021-02-12 Permalink
My mother-in-law has tenants who know full well that nothing can really be done against them for non-payment until the 21st of the month, at which point you can try to evict them. They routinely pay around the 15th of the month. I can only imagine what they would do if they could extend 3 weeks into 5 months. Probably spend a lot more on weed that they’re smoke inside the house, even though the lease specifies no smoking indoors (another thing that is virtually impossible to enforce).
In my case (as I’m sure for many others), not getting rent paid means not being able to pay my mortgage. I mean, I’d still pay, but it would put me into significant debt. It’s literally taking food off the table for my family.
Also, I really wish we would stop comparing ourselves to France all the time, as is done in that second article. Can’t they mention some other place, like Austria or Seattle, where there are also protections against winter evictions?