Clark: freeze most residential rents for 2021
“Our government wants to stabilize rents for Ontario's 1.7 million rental households for 2021, because this year is not like any other year.”
Steve Clark, · Ontario government news release (Bill 204)
What happened · Oct 1, 2020
Bill 204 received Royal Assent on October 1, 2020 and froze most residential rents from January 1 to December 31, 2021.
On September 17, 2020, Ford and Clark introduced the Helping Tenants and Small Businesses Act, which would freeze rent in 2021 for most rent-controlled and non-rent-controlled units. The bill received Royal Assent on October 1, 2020. Rents did not rise for most RTA-covered units from January 1 to December 31, 2021, including units first occupied after November 15, 2018. Above-guideline increases approved for capital work were still allowed during the freeze.