Eviction applications up 10% in 2005
Eviction bids soar in Ontario, Toronto Star, 20 Feb 2006
Toronto landlords are seeking to evict tenants at a higher rate than ever before, and last year filed nearly 30,000 applications to kick people out of their homes, a tenants' group says.
The Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations said the 29,090 eviction applications filed by landlords here last year is a 10 per cent jump over the previous year, and the highest on record since Ontario implemented the Tenant Protection Act in 1998.
Across the province, more than half the tenants "were evicted without a hearing at the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal," the association said in a statement.
No figures on actual evictions are available for Toronto...
No graphical figures were provided, either, so I produced a basic chart using Metro Tenants' data [1,2] to give readers a better sense of the upward trend.
With my social scientist's hat on, I should add that to draw any firm conclusions about how shocking the 10% (and other, smaller) jumps are it will be necessary to determine if number of occupied rental housing units in each region rose or fell over time [3], and see if the growth in evictions kept pace with the number of rental housholds in the same period.
Additional press: National Post, LTV News, London Free Press, Ottawa Sun.
Posted by Greg Smith @ 3:34 p.m.
3 Comments:
I found there is a lot of interesting information on that group on the Toronto Tenants Assocations page.
Most of landlords buy property as an investment, a nest egg, and this hard earned asset can be under threat. In some cases, not only will your tenant not pay rent, but paint you as the bad guy for wanting payment.Sometimes landlords find themselves in the difficult position of having a tenant who is not paying rent, who is causing problems for other tenants.Do not attempt to evict the tenant yourself. You must apply through the courts for them to do this on your behalf. Doing so is a criminal offence and you could be fined and/or sent to prison.For more details visit us at eviction process.
http://www.torontotenantsassociations.ca/ndp-akande.html is a great story on how the Metro Tenants helped a landlord keep part of her illegal rent increases AGAINST tenants because they wanted to help an NDP minister when her government was providing this group's public funding!
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