Petition to Ottawa City Council - Help Make Housing Affordable

I agree with building affordable housing, however, I’d like to see controls in the plan to discourage slumlords from taking advantage of the relaxed regulations. I feel as though if this were to happen opportunists would build/renovate properties as cheaply as they possibly could to pass inspection and then extract every dime out of them while not maintaining them.

For this to work we would need to dissuade these opportunists AND have a functioning Landlord and Tenant Board, which we do not have at the moment.