Carolyn Taylor: College St and Landlord

carolyn taylor: Kris Siddiqi, Carolyn Taylor, Aurora Browne, Michael O'Connell and Karri North were forced to leave their home at 795 College St. after the landlord said it wanted to renovate, according to The Toronto Star. The Landlord and Tenant Board has since ruled the eviction was in bad faith. The landlord for a lowrise, eight-unit rental building at 795 College St. showed a blatant disregard for the Residential Tenancies Act RTA when it evicted five tenants from three units for renovations, ignored their requests to return, then put those new units up for rent, the Landlord and Tenant board ruled earlier this month. Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star But the landlord, a company called 795 College Inc., is profiting enormously from flouting the law, wrote board adjudicator Dale Whitmore in a Feb 7. decision. Under the law, landlords must issue tenants an N13 notice, which comes with a written promise that if tenants want back in once work is done they must inform the landlord and will not face increases beyond what they would if they stayed in their homes. It was the board that ordered the original College St. tenants out, after the landlord asked to use a piece of rental housing law that allows landlords to evict tenants during renovations, a process advocates have called renovictions. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.