The city plans to limit the number of bedrooms in new residential buildings for the first time in an effort to prevent new unregulated rooming houses from cropping up. Staff took specific aim at unregulated rooming houses that pack many bedrooms into oversized units, effectively cramming people into homes not meant for that many occupants. More enforcement neededThe first step of the new plan is to cap the number of bedrooms in a single dwelling at four bedrooms. "People are living in dire, dire circumstances," said McKenney, whose ward has the most rooming houses. No more garbage pilesBrent Webster said his Bel-Air neighbourhood near Algonquin College is particularly hard hit by rooming houses.

Source: CBC News May 22, 2018 20:15 UTC