The Residential Tenancy Branch dismissed landlord Killam REIT’s application for the rent hike
Sandra McMullen’s nine-year-old daughter is enrolled in karate classes this fall, and the single mother of two said there may also be some extra money for groceries and other extracurricular activities.
The residents, many of them “low-income earners” and long-time renters, said the Halifax-based company was taking advantage of the province’s Additional Rent Increase for Capital Expenditures, known as ARI-C, which came into effect in 2021 and allows landlords to transfer the costs of repairs to tenants through rent increases.
“To see Killam brag about how much money they are making to their investors at the same time they are saying to their tenants they need rent increases to cover building repairs is insulting,” Beauchamp said in a statement. The issue to be decided was whether the landlord was entitled to impose an additional rent increase for capital expenditures of $251,210 for a flat roof replacement.
“Are we supposed to pay for every repair the landlord has to make? What are we even paying rent for if it isn’t used to repair the building?” The Christie Point apartment dwellers are asking the provincial government to amend the ARI-C legislation it passed in 2021.
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