Housing minister Rob Flack framed the changes as essential to restoring market balance
Ontario legislators passed Bill 60 on Monday, a sweeping omnibus bill designed to accelerate housing supply and reform the province's rental-market infrastructure.
The legislation moves the needle on affordability by overhauling how landlords and developers navigate tenancy rules and development approvals.
Housing minister Rob Flack framed the changes as essential to restoring market balance. "With more supply comes lower rents," he said during the final legislative vote.
The bill targets bottlenecks across multiple fronts: accelerating Landlord and Tenant Board hearings, standardizing development charges across municipalities, and streamlining zoning approvals.
Changes to tenancy and rental housing
Schedule 12 of the bill introduces significant amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act. Landlords can now evict tenants for non-payment of rent after seven days' notice, down from 15 days.
For personal-use evictions, landlords providing 120 days' notice no longer need to compensate tenants or offer alternative housing. The appeal period for eviction orders has been compressed to 15 days, down from 30 days.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Toronto Area (TRREB) welcomed the changes as targeting systemic delays. "Bill 60 will speed up hearings, improve procedures for rent arrears, streamline adjudication processes, and place greater emphasis on reducing systemic delays at the LTB," said Elechia Barry-Sproule, TRREB President.
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Housing supply and development barriers
The legislation addresses long-standing friction between builders and municipalities by clarifying development-charge calculations and reserve-fund reporting. TRREB emphasized this removes a key cost driver.
"For years, high, unpredictable growth-related costs have driven up construction costs, delayed projects, and eroded affordability for buyers and renters."
Despite the government's stated commitment to supply-side solutions, critics argue the changes make evictions easier and strip renters of protections.
Tenant advocates worry the accelerated timelines and compressed appeal periods will worsen homelessness during an affordability crisis.
While Flack positions Bill 60 as a housing-affordability fix, TRREB cautiously noted the legislation alone won't solve Ontario's housing challenges, calling for continued provincial and federal action on broader measures like HST rebates for all new construction.
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