Renovictions

Renovictions are evictions of tenants for the purpose of renovation.

Quotes

• This important ruling supports the city in taking bold steps to directly respond to the housing crisis
  • Jonathan Coté, New Westminster Mayor according to B.C. Court of Appeal upholds New Westminster's anti-renoviction bylaw CBC (May 4, 2021)

• The city has a long-standing concern with the need to preserve local affordable rental housing and has recently become particularly concerned with a perceived increase in the risk of renovictions in New Westminster. So long as complementary local laws do not frustrate other legislation, 'in an area of jurisdictional overlap, the level of government that is closest to the matter will often introduce complementary legislation to accommodate local circumstances.'
  • Madam Justice Dickson according to B.C. Court of Appeal upholds New Westminster's anti-renoviction bylaw CBC (May 4, 2021)

• Learn more about "renovictions" in RTA: Section 49.2 
  • Types of evictions (2024 Government of [[British Columbia])

• Renovictions and rising rental rates are very much part of a larger issue in Canada: the commodification of housing, and investment companies deliberately using housing as a wealth-generating tool.
  • Nrinder Nann, Hamilton councillor according to [Why this Ontario city is passing an anti-renoviction policy] Macleans (February 1, 2024)

• We’ve seen an explosion in the number of N-13s served by landlords. It’s happening all over southern Ontario. People are desperate. They have the right to move back into the same unit and pay the same rent.
  • Jenaya Nixon, a peer worker with Eviction Prevention, an organization that advocates for tenants in crisis according to Group of Kitchener tenants push back against renoviction The Record (June 26, 2023)