Brampton city staff are discussing the implementation of harsher fines for landlords who neglect their rental properties, as the city prepares to relaunch its Residential Rental Licensing (RLL) pilot program. The program aims to crack down on illegal accommodations and hold landlords to a higher standard. Mayor Patrick Brown expressed the need for fines that have more impact, especially considering the rising rents in Brampton. The program is set to resume in the coming weeks with new parameters.
As Brampton gears up for the relaunch of its Residential Rental Licensing (RLL) pilot program — designed to crack down on illegal accommodations and hold landlords to a higher standard — city staff are deliberating harsher fines for bad actors and exemptions for those waiting on remediation through the LTB.
“We need to have fines that have more teeth for that are leaving their properties in a situation that is unsafe or in disarray,” said Mayor Patrick Brown at a recent telephone town hall in response to a resident who lamented that at $250 fine for shoddy upkeep of a rental property is not much more than a slap on the wrist — especially when you consider that rents in Brampton are skyrocketing. More than 7,000 people tuned into the town hall, held last Thursday, to ask questions and air their grievances about the RLL pilot,). Nonetheless, city staff have said that the intention is to resume the program in the coming weeks with new and clarified parameters. “We are preparing for unusual, hypothetical situations,” Brown also sai
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