On July 22, 2020, the Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act, 2020 (Bill 184), received Royal Assent.
The Act contains amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, Housing Services Act, 2011, Building Code Act, 1992 and includes the Ontario Mortgage and Housing Corporation Repeal Act, 2020. The Province of Ontario advises in its communications to all municipal councils and District Social Services Administration Boards (DSAAB's) that these amendments support the following priorities:
More Homes, More Choice: Ontario's Housing Supply Action Plan to make it faster and easier to build housing, including rental housing, and to build the right type of homes in the right places;
Part II of the Community Housing Renewal Strategy a multi-year strategy to stabilize and grow Ontario's community housing sector; and
Transforming the Delivery of Building Code Services by enabling the future creation of an administrative authority that would help deliver faster and better services to provide the sage construction of buildings in Ontario.