Renters' Rights & Information Association

What are your thoughts on paying your rent with a points-earning or cash-back credit card? https://business.financialpost.com//canadians-embrace-idea

What do you think of Toronto's new "Housing Now" plan? "...Mayor John Tory’s plan to turn 11 city-owned surplus property sites into affordable housing projects...called Housing Now, will offer developers or non-profit housing providers long-term leases, tax breaks and other incentives, provided at least one-third of the new units built on the lands are classified as affordable. Out of 10,000 expected units, about 3,600 must be defined as affordable, meaning they will be offe...red for 80 per cent of the city’s average rent, or less. The rest will either be market-rate rentals or condominiums allowing for those profits to subsidize the affordable housing." https://www.theglobeandmail.com//article-john-torys-housi/

What do you think of these ideas about how and where to build more housing in Toronto? http://spacing.ca//a-way-forward-for-torontos-housing-cri/

ICYMI: "A financial literacy curriculum needs to include learning about the basics of rental rights and procedures." https://torontosun.com//guest-column-knowledge-of-tenant-r

Tenant rights and rental procedures are a necessary part of any financial literacy curriculum, and including this information would show an understanding from the Ford government on the pressures young people face in today’s economy. https://torontosun.com//guest-column-knowledge-of-tenant-r

The most obvious way...is by increasing the stock of affordable and market-rate, purpose-built rentals that provide tenants with the security and professional management that provides them with security of tenure, says Generation Squeeze... It wants the government to help by making the business model for rental development competitive with condos by using tax incentives such as GST rebates. The guiding principle of We Rent is that ‘renters are not second-class citizens.’ It’s a cultural phenomenon that we prioritize home ownership... https://www.thestar.com//renters-are-not-second-class-citi