Alberta’s Residential Tenancy Dispute Resolution Service recently ruled that his landlord’s rent increase 'was not a genuine rent increase, but rather an economic eviction.'
Patterson said there are rules for landlords to follow when it comes to ending contracts to do renovations, but some landlords hike rents to circumvent those rules.
Laura Murphy, research co-ordinator for the Affordable Housing Solutions Lab at the University of Alberta, calls economic evictions and renovictions 'serious.' "It's financialized owners that show up cash in hand, 15 per cent above asking. We're getting pushed out of housing, whether it be rental or home ownership, by investors.""It's life-and-death in terms of just the impact of financialization and renoviction. We see the hollowing out of neighbourhoods across Canada," she said.
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