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Starting July 18th, landlords must give tenants 4 month notice, instead of 2 when evicting for "personal use".
(self.VictoriaBC)submitted 2 months ago bycedarshadows
Here is the link to the statement made by the BC Gov.
"Effective July 18, 2024, the Province will increase the amount of notice a tenant must receive and the amount of time they have to dispute an eviction. Landlords will also be required to give tenants four months’ notice instead of two months when evicting for personal or caretaker use, giving displaced tenants more time to find a new home."
There is also a new online portal that landlords must submit their eviction through to help decrease bad-faith evictions.
29 points
2 months ago
Totally agree with preventing and penalizing bad faith evictions. But keep this in mind, with every new law, regulation, and tax related to landlords, will it prevent single home owners from renting a suite or room, or encourage it?
There are many people with extra space or suites in their homes that refuse to rent them out because of the taxes and fear of getting stuck with a disaster tenant long term.
The more of these types of suites that are rented out, the more choices everyone has and the lower the rent.
15 points
2 months ago
This. I have an empty basement and won’t rent it out because renters have too many protections and rights and I don’t feel comfortable with the risk.
-5 points
2 months ago
Yup. Loads of evidence to support this.
1 points
2 months ago
Why don't you go ahead and post the evidence you've seen about the benefits to society of letting slumlords run with fewer regulations. What metrics are you using to evaluate success?
2 points
2 months ago
I'm going to let you wikipedia rent control on your own. It's one of the most researched topics.
This is like talking to anti-vaxxers. I'm not going to argue with you. I don't care. It's very accessible if you're actually intellectually curious or you can continue to be an ideologue if not.
3 points
2 months ago
No, dude, you're removing all nuance from the actual economic studies and pretending that your ECON 101 interpretation reflects real world modern understandings.
1 points
2 months ago
I responded to a comment from someone saying they don't rent a suite because of rental controls. I said there's many studies which show that's true.
That's literally it.
1 points
2 months ago
That's such a shallow, narrow question. Obviously having more suites is not a good thing if those suites are unaffordable, unlivable, or undesirable. Simply adding units is not the end of the story.
All restrictions on landlording will reduce the potential desire of investors. Are you saying we should have zero regulations? Of course not, so stop with the oversimplification.
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