With housing stretched nearly beyond capacity in Maple Ridge, B.C., some city councillors want to see more policies to support renters who are "renovicted" and want greater responsibility placed on landlords to help those renters. Craig Speirs says landlords should be required to help tenants find new rental housing if they are forced to move because of rezoning, demolition or redevelopment of the building. A tenant relocation assistance policy was presented to city council earlier this week, but did not pass. Maple Ridge is not the only municipality looking at relocation assistance plans. Low vacancy ratesSpeirs says protection for renters from renovictions and demovictions is crucial in Maple Ridge because of the low vacancy rate and the high likelihood of redevelopment.

Source: CBC News March 08, 2018 19:07 UTC