Two sisters were shocked when a Toronto landlord raised their rent by $7,000 per month.

The landlord had told them he wanted to raise the rent to $3,500 and when they complained he decided to raise it to $9,500.

“We know that our building is not rent controlled and this was something we were always worried about happening and there is no way we can afford $9,500 per month," Yumna Farooq said.

  • Tired8281
    8·
    1 year ago

    It won’t be that price for a new tenant. This is special just for them.

      • bjorney
        3·
        1 year ago

        There is nothing in the RTA that says they can’t do this

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Hmm, so it doesn’t look like there’s a rule against evicting someone for no reason, unless you can prove discrimination, which is mildly surprising to me, but there is a cap on the amount they can bump up rent without special permission in many types of units. Based on that the landlord doesn’t have a leg to stand on unless they switch to just openly telling the person to leave, but IANAL.

          Edit: Oh wait, it says it’s a brand new unit that this doesn’t apply to. RIP.