Submissions
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April 29 2011
Submission to the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Consultation on Mental Health
FRPO welcomes additional efforts to raise awareness of mental health human rights issues provided they are genuinely intended to help avoid instances of discrimination.
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February 23 2011
Justice Denied: Ontario's Broken Rent Dispute Process
The report makes a number of recommendations as to how Ontario’s process could be modernized, primarily by reducing the unnecessary delays in the system. Quicker justice would be better and fairer for both landlords and tenants.
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February 11 2011
FRPO 2011 Pre-Budget Submission
FRPO Recommends the Ontario government ease rent controls, provide strategic tax credits for rental housing investments and rebalance the provision of grants and subisides that currently favour homeowners over tenants.
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October 29 2010
The Provincial Policy Statement: Removing Barriers to Housing Supply
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October 15 2010
A Bed Bug Prevention & Control Strategy for Ontario
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March 22 2010
Suite Metering Provisions Under Bill 235, The Energy Consumers Protection Act, 2009
On March 22nd FRPO was at Queen's Park to present landlords' views to the Standing Committee on General Government on proposed suite metering (sub-metering) legislation (Bill 235).
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December 03 2009
Impact of HST on Rental Housing in Ontario
Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs regarding Bill 218, Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009
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October 16 2009
Private Rental Housing Industry Response to the Proposed Built Environment Accessibility Standard
The Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) strongly supports efforts to prevent barriers for Ontario’s disabled. Architectural and physical barriers exist throughout Ontario’s built environment, including in the rental housing sector... |
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August 01 2009
Response to Ontario's Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy Consultation
This submission supplements earlier FRPO submissions to provincial affordable housing consultations. During the province's 2004 consultation, FRPO submitted a paper entitled The Affordability of Housing In Ontario: Trends, Causes, Solutions 1. The points and positions raised in that submission remain equally valid today...
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March 31 2009
Improving Rental Housing Waste Diversion
Ontario’s rental housing sector is already a leader on many environmental fronts, including waste management. Compared to single family homes, landlords and tenants in multi-family housing generate over 60% less total waste per household. Given the appropriate tools and policies that put them on a level playing field with owner-occupied homes, Ontario’s rental housing providers can help the province meet its waste management objectives. |
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November 17 2008
A Housing Benefit for Ontario
Hundreds of thousands of poor people in Ontario – whether they work or receive social assistance – spend more than half their income on shelter. This is a proposal to address this feature of poverty in Ontario by designing a new housing benefit.
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January 28 2008
2008 Pre-Budget Submission
Overly strict price-controls on private rents and over-taxation of tenants are the principal threats to a healthy rental housing market in Ontario. Housing affordability can also be improved by enhancing the design of the ROOF housing allowance program, while greater energy conservation potential in our sector can be achieved through new legislation that will facilitate the implementation of smart meters in rental housing buildings.
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August 24 2007
Human Rights & Rental Housing in Ontario
The Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) is a strong supporter of human rights compliance and regularly provides education to landlords about their responsibilities under the Code. FRPO together with its members oppose discrimination in all its forms.
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