P.E.I.’s moratorium on so-called renovictions will no longer be in place starting next week, and housing advocates say new protections introduced last year don’t go far enough.
The moratorium, which prevents landlords from evicting tenants while they do renovations on a unit, has been in effect for two years. The practice was sometimes used by landlords to skirt provincial rent controls by charging higher rents to the next tenants to take the unit.
The province’s new Residential Tenancy Act contains safeguards against the practice. That includes a requirement for landlords to offer the unit to the original tenant once renovations are complete.
