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.

  • @CanadaPlus
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    I’m guessing there’s a rule against this, unless he can find another tenant that will actually pay that.

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        Yeah, I think you’re right, and I’m pretty sure this is super illegal as a result.

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

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            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.