{"id":885500,"date":"2026-09-06T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885500\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:15:19","slug":"mississauga-clamping-down-on-renovictions-with-new-bylaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885500\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississauga clamping down on renovictions with new bylaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mississauga is clamping down on renovictions with a new bylaw taking effect on Sept. 1 aimed at landlords attempting to raise rents under the guise of renovations. <\/p>\n

The city’s new Rental Repairs and Renovations Licensing bylaw requires landlords who issue an N13, a provincially regulated notice to end a tenancy due to extensive repairs or renovations, to now also apply for a municipal licence.<\/p>\n

The licence, which costs up to $600, must be applied for within seven days of issuing the notice as well as provide tenants with extra compensation in accordance with Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act.<\/p>\n

ACORN Canada, an affordable housing advocacy group advocating for low-income Canadians, found that between 2017 and 2023, Mississauga ranked ninth on the list of the top 10 Ontario cities for N13s with 68 notices. Toronto took the lead with 950. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe new bylaw will not undermine the Landlord and Tenant Board’s authority but focus on renovictions at the local level. (Kimberly Ivany\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Mississauga council did not provide specific numbers of renovictions when asked.<\/p>\n

“The City of Mississauga engaged extensively with community stakeholders and understands that there are issues within the municipality,” said city spokesperson Irene McCutcheon in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

The bylaw gives Mississauga bylaw enforcement agents the authority to inspect local activities to confirm compliance with licensing requirements, but does not determine if a tenant has to vacate.<\/p>\n

Landlords must also keep tenants informed throughout the repair or renovation process.<\/p>\n

Municipal governments across southern Ontario adopted similar bylaws in recent years with the city of Hamilton passing one in January 2024 followed by Toronto, London and Kitchener.<\/p>\n

Noah Lister-Stevens is a Toronto-based paralegal who works on landlord-tenant cases with experience working on both sides.<\/p>\n

WATCH | How Toronto’s renoviction bylaw protects tenants:\"\"<\/p>\n

Toronto’s new renoviction bylaw comes into effect next week<\/p>\n

The city’s new renoviction bylaw is coming into effect July 31. As CBC’s Lane Harrison explains, it’s aimed at protecting tenants from being evicted from their homes by bad-faith landlords, who are attempting to raise rents under the disguise of renovations.<\/p>\n

“Part of this issue has been driven by the fact that we have such a really hot rental market right now that is creating a tremendous incentive for landlords to reset rents to market,” said Lister-Stevens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“That drives the increase in stuff like renovictions and improper use of N12 or just pressuring tenants to move out.”<\/p>\n

According to Lister-Stevens, rent stabilization legislation exists for a reason and Mississauga’s bylaw helps prevent landlords from circumventing it.<\/p>\n

Small property owners not impressed with new rules<\/p>\n

Boubah Bah, founder of the Small Ownership Landlords of Ontario, which represents 8,000 investors who own up to five properties across the province, disagrees.<\/p>\n

For owners like himself who only rent out one or two properties on the side, Bah said the added process disincentivizes locals from investing in real estate.<\/p>\n

\"ABoubah Bah is the founder of the Small Ownership Landlords of Ontario Association. He said this bylaw will hurt investors who own up to five properties. (CBC)<\/p>\n

“We’re not talking about the big real estate,” said Bah. “The investor in the rental, it can be a civil servant, a police officer, or a self-employed person.”<\/p>\n

According to Bah, these “mom and pop” landlords generally lack the means to renovate because annual rent increases are capped \u2014 set provincially at 2.5 per cent in 2025 and 2.1 per cent in 2026.<\/p>\n

So when they do decide to make repairs, facing construction costs, municipal permits, and now a renoviction licence create a major deterrent in the middle of a housing crisis, Bah said.<\/p>\n

A 2022 report from Statistics Canada found that 52.6 per cent of rental properties are owned by small ownership landlords.<\/p>\n

According to the city, the new framework was created with small landlords’ needs in mind.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Small landlords in Kitchener also oppose renoviction licence:\"\"<\/p>\n

Small landlords concerned with Kitchener’s renoviction bylaw<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the City of Kitchener passed a renoviction bylaw, but the decision met pushback from small ownership landlords who say the bylaw will disproportionately impact them. Starting in January, landlords in Kitchener will need to obtain a per-unit licence for renovations that require a tenant to vacate their unit based on an N13 notice. Danielle Chiasson, a small landlord in Ontario, believes the bylaw will have unintended consequences.<\/p>\n

“To reduce financial barriers, the bylaw includes a scaled licensing structure with licence terms of three, six or 12 months and fees that correspond to the expected duration,” said McCutcheon.<\/p>\n

The city also said it was designed so landlords won’t have to pay more than once when covering moving costs for displaced tenants.<\/p>\n

Tenants association finds fewer evictions after bylaws <\/p>\n

The Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations, which advocates for tenants\u2019 rights in the GTA including Mississauga, notes a decrease in evictions reported to them since 2021. <\/p>\n

Executive director Yaroslava Montenegro credits Toronto’s 2024 renovictions bylaw as the leading factor. After eviction reports peaked at 1,378 in 2023, the association recorded 930 in 2025 and 409 as of August 2026.<\/p>\n

\"AYaroslava Montenegro is the executive director of the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations and said her organization is seeing decreases in reoviction reports after Toronto implemented a licencing bylaw. (CBC)<\/p>\n

“In the past, we’ve seen landlords basically use these bad faith evictions to be able to push tenants out,” said Montenegro.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be a little bit harder for folks to be able to go through that red tape and also be able to make sure that they give the tenants all of the resources that they need to be able to move out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-885500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}