Quebec’s controversial housing bill will be passed into law as early as Wednesday — and housing advocates say that, when it does, lease transfers will essentially be dead.
Housing Minister France-Élaine Duranceau has pitched the new law, currently known as Bill 31, as a way to “re-establish balance between renters and landlords and increase housing supply.”
But it has drawn the ire of housing advocates who argue that the bill’s most significant impact will be the power it gives landlords to deny a lease transfer for any reason.
So, what’s in the bill?
Landlord can refuse lease transfers
Lease transfers gave tenants the right to transfer their lease
