It might be 22 degrees outside while your apartment is an oven, but not anymore, the City says.
Effective June 6, landlords will no longer have to follow a dated schedule to set temperatures. Throughout the year they will be expected to provide heating of at least 20 degrees Celsius, and where air-conditioning is available, landlords must ensure a maximum temperature of 26 degrees Celsius is not exceeded.
Residents paying rent for their homes won’t find themselves waking up to scorching hot temperatures because of a thermostat not inadequately adjusted to unexpected weather.
After hearing community feedback and consulting with tenants, landlords, and property managers, City staff was directed by council to update it’s adequate heat bylaw to reflect changing weather conditions.
Whereas previously landlords were required to provide a stable temperature in rental units of 20 degrees Celsius from Sept. 15 to June 1, these new updates to the bylaw scrap the dates.
Landlords were under pressure from the old bylaw preventing them from reducing the temperature until June 1. This year's weather, however, has brought heat waves weeks before that date.
The bylaw will henceforth be known as the Adequate Heat bylaw and will be reviewed every three years.
Effective June 6, landlords will no longer have to follow a dated schedule to set temperatures. Throughout the year they will be expected to provide heating of at least 20 degrees Celsius, and where air-conditioning is available, landlords must ensure a maximum temperature of 26 degrees Celsius is not exceeded.
Residents paying rent for their homes won’t find themselves waking up to scorching hot temperatures because of a thermostat not inadequately adjusted to unexpected weather.
After hearing community feedback and consulting with tenants, landlords, and property managers, City staff was directed by council to update it’s adequate heat bylaw to reflect changing weather conditions.
Whereas previously landlords were required to provide a stable temperature in rental units of 20 degrees Celsius from Sept. 15 to June 1, these new updates to the bylaw scrap the dates.
Landlords were under pressure from the old bylaw preventing them from reducing the temperature until June 1. This year's weather, however, has brought heat waves weeks before that date.
The bylaw will henceforth be known as the Adequate Heat bylaw and will be reviewed every three years.
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