Understanding Your Rights as a Tenant Under Bill 60
This resource from the Canadian Centre of Housing Rights (CCHR) gives tenants in Ontario essential information on their rights under Bill 60, including expected changes and protections that remain in place. Click here for the PDF version. This information was published on December 18, 2025.
Understanding Your Rights as a Tenant Under Bill 60
On November 24, 2025, Bill 60 was passed, changing 16 laws, including the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA). The changes made to the RTA apply only to applications made after Bill 60 comes into force. As of December 18, 2025, the changes to the RTA were not yet in effect.
Expected Changes
The following highlights some, but not all, of the expected changes under Bill 60.
Non-Payment of Rent
When your landlord claims you owe rent, there is a “grace period” of 14 days during which a landlord cannot file to evict you. Under Bill 60, it is shortened to 7 days. This means that if your landlord gives you an N4 form for non-payment of rent, you have only 7 days to pay before an eviction application can be filed with the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB).
Unpaid Rent Hearings
During your eviction hearing for unpaid rent, you can raise issues that you could have included in your own application to the LTB, such as if your landlord has failed to do maintenance. However, under Bill 60, you must pay 50% of the money your landlord claims you owe before the hearing to be allowed to raise these issues.
Requests to Review LTB Decisions
When you or your landlord disagree with an LTB order, you have 30 days to request that the LTB review their decision. Under Bill 60, requests to review must be submitted within 15 days of the decision or order. However, if the LTB considers it “just and appropriate in the circumstances to extend the time to request the review,” the LTB still has the power to give more time.
Landlord Own-Use Eviction Compensation
If your landlord gave you an N12 notice because they or their family need the unit to live in, they had to pay you one month’s rent as compensation, regardless of how much notice they gave. Under Bill 60, if the termination date on the N12 notice is at least 120 days after the notice is given, your landlord does not have to pay this compensation.
Rules That Remain Unchanged
While other changes may come in the future, importantly, the following two protections still apply:
Rent Regulation
Your rent can only be increased once every 12 months with 90 days’ notice. For properties first occupied before November 15, 2018, your landlord is not allowed to increase the rent more than the province’s annual guideline amount unless they apply for an Above the Guideline Increase.
Security of Tenure/Tenancy
Tenancies still automatically continue month to month once the initial lease period ends. This means once the lease period ends, you are not required to move out or renew the lease, and your original lease terms continue.