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What you should know about your housing rights: Part II

November 12, 2019 admin Discrimination, Featured, housing, human rights law, settlement, your legal rights

Credit to Author: Denise Hansen| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:10:14 +0000

As a tenant or a prospective tenant – in Canada, you have legal rights. These legal rights apply not only once you have secured housing in Canada, but also while you are painstakingly searching for housing, in what is today a very difficult housing market in many cities across Canada. In part two of our […]

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What you should know about your housing rights: Part I

October 2, 2019 admin Discrimination, Featured, housing, human rights law, settlement, your legal rights

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:03:54 +0000

A family new to Canada is asked to pay six months of rent in advance because they have no rental history in Canada or Canadian credit or professional references. A single mother living in a shelter is refused an apartment by a landlord because she has children and receives social assistance. A young woman is […]