Housing: The city is the Wild West
This city has become the wild west as far as rental housing is concerned, according to a housing committee spokesman.
Few people are mentioning one of the key problems here: the weakening of the old Régie du logement. I’m old enough to remember a golden age when the Régie sometimes protected tenants, and was not simply a mechanism for enabling their eviction. But successive waves of neoliberal governments sapped its purpose and then the CAQ renamed it “Tribunal administratif du logement” like a name on a tombstone.
Orr 10:27 on 2021-10-16 Permalink
I read recently in lapresse oped letters section from a landlord that the Regie in fact coddles tenants and land lords only get screwed at the Regie.
This was, yes, the landlord’s perspective.