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Bill 60 Update

November 12, 2025

We are very concerned about the recently proposed Bill 60 by the provincial government. It is currently going through second reading in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

ACTO has created a helpful one pager about Bill 60.

We were pleased to see Toronto City Council address this Bill through item EX27.1 – Impacts of Provincial Legislation that Weakens Rental Protections which was approved by Council on November 12, 2025. We send our thanks to Mayor Chow and the Councillors for standing up for tenants’ rights. Below is the letter we submitted in support of the recommendations in the item.

To: City Council

Re: EX27.1 – Impacts of Provincial Legislation that Weakens Rental Protections

Don Valley Community Legal Services (DVCLS) is a community legal clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario. Our catchment area includes Wards 14, 15, 16 and 19, and sections of Wards 11 and 12. We serve many diverse communities and our clients are lower-income, racialized, and primarily renters.

We are very concerned about Bill 60 which was recently proposed by the provincial government. More than one third of our cases at DVCLS are housing related and we mainly help tenants facing eviction. We assist some of the most vulnerable and marginalized residents of Toronto, helping them keep their homes so they do not end up in an already overwhelmed shelter system.

We were pleased to see Mayor Chow address Bill 60 and voice concerns about the proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA). We applaud the Executive Committee for approving the recommendations put forward and we hope that City Council will do the same. We have been appreciative of the actions the City has taken in the past to help renters, such as supporting programs like RentSafeTO, EPIC, MURA, and Rent Bank, and implementing the Rental Renovation License Bylaw (“Renovictions Bylaw”). We have seen the difference these programs and bylaws make in our clients’ lives.

We must protect the affordable rental units we already have if we want to solve the housing crisis. Bill 60 will make it easier to evict tenants and make it harder for them to fight evictions at the Landlord and Tenant Board. This Bill will make it harder for us at the legal clinic to assist tenants and help preserve their homes. Mayor Chow’s letter outlines the impacts these changes will have on tenants and we share the same concerns.

We also agree with all of the recommendations put forward and strongly encourage Councillors to continue advocating for renters. We would like to note the following items which would significantly improve the lives of tenants across Toronto and Ontario:

    • Oppose changes that weaken tenants’ rights and security of tenure or a further weakening of rent control
    • Reinstate full rent control on all buildings
    • Reintroduce vacancy control
    • End illicit renovictions and help tenants facing renoviction
    • Amend Above Guideline Increase (AGI) rules
    • Allow tenants the right to in-person Landlord and Tenant Board hearings

We would also like to acknowledge that bringing this to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) for information and joint advocacy is an important step. We have seen several municipalities introducing renovictions bylaws in the absence of provincial political will to tackle this issue. We know municipal advocacy can make a difference and hope that a large number of municipalities opposing Bill 60 will impact the province.

We thank City Council for your efforts to date to help tenants. In a growing housing crisis and affordability crisis, now is not the time to weaken protections for tenants or expedite evictions. We hope the province will listen to advocates and municipalities, and walk back these proposed changes under Bill 60.

Sincerely,

Marjorie Hiley
Executive Director
Don Valley Community Legal Services

We also signed on to the joint letter to Premier Ford and the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, along with over 130 other organizations. You can read the joint letter here.

DVCLS will also be joining the National Housing Day Rally on Saturday, November 22nd.

  • 11am: Meet at 67 Yonge Street in Toronto outside the headquarters of the Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) – the main landlord lobby behind Bill 60
  • 11:30-12:30: March to Queens Park
  • 12:30 to 1:30: Rally against Bill 60 at Queens Park