Eviction of tenants from Langford apartment tower has exposed huge deficiencies in our tenancy laws.
A commentary. Emily Rogers is director of operations at Together Against Poverty Society, where Doug King is executive director.
While Centuriion has used words like “evacuate” and “vacate,” we must make no mistake of what they are really trying to do, which is to permanently evict these tenants from the building. The economic incentive for landlords to declare a tenancy frustrated instead of ending the tenancy a different way is two-fold: supporting tenants is costly, and ending tenancies allows landlords to re-rent the units at a much higher rent when they are safe for re-occupation.
Instead of allowing landlords to unilaterally declare the end of 90 tenancies in the blink of an eye, a better system would be for the branch to work proactively with local governments, landlords, and tenants to determine whether these tenancies are frustrated, or if they can continue after remediation work is complete.
If it is found that Centurion was somehow negligent in upholding their responsibilities to ensure building safety, they must compensate tenants for losses and suffering, and they should be responsible for reimbursing the money the provincial government has had to allocate to support the tenants they have left behind.
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