Joy Maynard told Global News in December when she was eight months pregnant, she was facing a $600 a month rent hike once her baby was born.
The B.C. government is rolling out changes to the Residential Tenancy Act designed to close loopholes in the existing rules and better protect renters and landlords. Angela Jung reports.New parents facing a massive rent hike when their baby arrived told Global News they are happy about the B.C. government’s announcement about rent protection, even if doesn’t help them at this time.
“I know that it might not affect my situation,” she said. “I kind of knew that going into it, but I am glad that it’s gonna help somebody else later on and they’re not going to be faced with the same harassment and the same trauma.”The B.C. government is proposing new tenancy protections to prevent unfair rent hikes and bad-faith evictions.“We know that most landlords and tenants act in good faith,” he said.
She told Global News that they have been unable to collect any rent in two months as the renter refuses to pay.She said she believes the government’s announcement on Monday still favours tenants over landlords. “We are not hopeful. We are hopeless because the government is making the laws not equal for both sides,” she added.A new act will make it easier and faster for landlords to recoup unpaid rent but it won’t come into effect until next year.
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