In an already tight, expensive rental market, landlords in B.C. will soon be able to increase their rent for existing tenants by three and a half per cent instead of the two per cent they re currently capped at.
The B.C. government has acknowledged an ongoing problem with landlord s use of property evictions being carried out under "false pretenses," and is considering reforms to protect renters.
Vancouver resident Crystal Cornthwaite has been told her landlord’s daughter wants to move into the basement apartment where she currently pays below market rent – an eviction scenario advocates say has become increasingly common since B.C. made renovictions more difficult.
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