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The Real Source of the B.C. Housing Crisis: Governments, Taxes and Bureaucracy
Originally posted on The Globe and Mail
Housing supply and affordability is one of the leading issues across Canada, and the s...
Guest Blog
My Thoughts on the Below Inflation Permitted Rent Increase and Vacancy Control
By Jon Stovell, Reliance Properties
The provincial government’s decision to cap the 2023 rent increase to a maximum of 2 per...
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Vacancy Control Ultimately Harms Renters
Vacancy control would tie rent controls to a unit rather than the tenant. Currently, rental owners have the flexibility to adju...
FortisBC Rental Apartment Efficiency Program (RAP)
LandlordBC has had a long and mutually beneficial collaboration with FortisBC focused on delivering no-cost programs that improve energy efficiency to our members and the broader residential rental housing sector. One of the best and most successful programs is the Forti...
Rent Increase Cap
On Wednesday, September 7, BC’s Premier John Horgan announced that the 2023 standard annual rent increase percentage would not be based on inflation but instead capped at two percent. This percentage is in effect for any standard annual rent increase with an effective dat...
The Rental Housing Crisis is a Municipal Election Priority. Are You Ready to Take a Deep Dive Into What it Takes to Get Purpose-Built Rental Built in Your Community?
Elected municipal representatives have many responsibilities – from developing regulatory policies and bylaws to overseeing city services – but the choices they make on land-use and housing development are perhaps the most impactful and longest lasting decisions for the e...
Judge Quashes Vancouver’s Move to Enact Bylaws on Rent Control Between Tenancies
A British Columbia court has ruled that recently enacted Vancouver bylaws prohibiting rent increases between residential tenancies, a measure referred to as vacancy control, fall outside what the city is entitled to do.
The Aug. 3 Supreme Court of British Columbia judg...
Investing in Rental Stock: How the Industry is Renewing Existing Rental Buildings
*An original version of this article was first published in the summer 2022 edition of The Key magazine.
British Columbia is filled with countless aging purpose-built rental buildings (PBRs) constructed between the 1950s and 1980s, many of them nearing the end of their...
Improving Accessibility: 5 Tips to Make Your Rental Units More Accessible
By: Katie Kirker, Writer, Rick Hansen Foundation
*This article was originally published in the spring 2022 edition of The Key magazine.
Looking for affordable housing is a daunting task for anyone - Kyla McCaig faces the additional challenge of finding a home in an ...
Residential Tenancy Branch to Record Hearings
Advocacy is sometimes a long game. For years LandlordBC has pushed for more oversight of the Residential Tenancy Branch’s (RTB) Dispute Resolution hearings through the recording of hearings. These efforts go back to our initial involvement as part of the RTB’s stakeholder...
Running in the 2022 Municipal Election? Please Read This
In 2018, in the weeks leading up to the municipal elections that year, LLBC released a paper entitled “The Only Long-Term Solution to the Rental Housing Crisis”. With the impending municipal elections in October of this year, we’ve decided to re-publish the article witho...
BAP Needs to Focus on Protecting People, Not Buildings
There’s been recent media attention given to Vancouver’s Broadway Area Plan (BAP) in the context of proposed tenant protections and the suggestion that "the builders" will pay for these protections. LandlordBC endorses the notion of renter supports, but the economics of r...
Resilient and Responsible: Why Your Next Tenant Should be A Refugee Claimant
By Alexandra Dawley and Marzieh Nezakat – MOSAIC, Refugee Settlement and Integration Program
Carol is a woman in her mid-30s with a warm smile and calming demeanor. She is well-educated and has worked internationally for several years as a social worker. Her passion f...