Ottawa – On Wednesday August 26th, the City Council approved new regulations aimed at improving rental-housing quality to ensure safe and adequate housing for Ottawa’s renters.
The new Rental Housing Property Management By-law and updates to the Property Standards By-law would go into effect by August 2021. They focus on property standards, pest control measures and tenant awareness about their rights and responsibilities, outlining new requirements for both tenants and landlords.
The City is also working on non-regulatory ways to improve rental housing quality, including a system to track service requests, an online database of addresses with their history of property –standards violations and maintenance violations and a webpage with resources for both landlords and tenants.
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