The Minister responsible for Housing, France-Élaine Duranceau, wonders whether it would not make sense to intervene in rent increases when the apartment is transferred from one tenant to another, and not “at the level of the transfer of the rental agreement”.
Posted at 1:21 p.m
Lia Lévesque The Canadian Press
During the consideration of her bill in a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, the minister appeared to have continued reservations about tenants transferring tenancies.
Giving up the lease means “paying off the lease with other people’s property,” the minister said in an interview with David Searle, a lawyer and lecturer in housing law.
“Transferring the lease is not the solution to the problem,” she added. She asked Mr Searle whether it would not be better to intervene on the problem at the root: the problem which requires that at the time of handover of the accommodation there are “rent increases that are not in line with what we would like.” We shouldn’t work on these increases instead? »
Mr Searle replied that tenants’ rights groups would certainly support such a measure, which would reduce rents.