VANCOUVER — A legal advocate for tenants says the B.C. government should take swift action to get rid of a regulation allowing landlords to apply for rent increases far bigger than otherwise allowed.
Rob Patterson, a lawyer with the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, was addressing what he calls a "troubling" ruling by the province's Residential Tenancy Branch allowing a landlord to increase rent by 27 per cent because their mortgage rate had gone up.
Patterson says the regulation allowing landlords to apply for bigger rent increases due to financial losses, including mortgage rate increases, has been rarely used.
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