Affordability & Housing

Renting and rental housing platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Reintroduce the Multiple Unit Rental Building cost allowance to encourage the production of rental housing units

    "We will reintroduce a tax incentive which, when originally introduced in the 1970s, spurred tens of thousands of rental housing across the country. Known as the Multiple Unit Rental Building (MURB) cost allowance, this policy helped produce nearly 200,000 units in seven years (1974-81)." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Reduce tax on the sale of multi-purpose rental to non-profit operators, land trusts, or non-profit acquisition funds

    "We will facilitate the conversion of existing structures into affordable housing units by reducing the tax liability for private owners of multi-purpose rental when they sell their building to a non-profit operator, land trust, or non-profit acquisition fund - so long as the proceeds are reinvested in building new purpose-built rental housing." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

We don't have any Conservative policies on Renting and rental housing.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Renting and rental housing.

NDP

  • Require strong tenant protection measures from other levels of government as a condition for access to federal housing funding
  • Require other levels of government to institute rent control, ban renovictions and demovictions

    "We will fight soaring rents by requiring strong tenant protection measures from other levels of government as a condition for accessing federal housing funding. These measures include rent control, as well as prohibitions on practices such as renovictions, demovictions and other predatory landlord practices aimed at pushing people out of their homes and driving up rents." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Set aside 100% of suitable federal crown land to build over 100,000 rent-controlled homes by 2035
  • Ban Real Estate Investment Trusts, Hedge Funds, and private equity funds from buying purpose-built rental apartments or social housing units

    "We will ban predatory financial landlords from buying any existing purpose-built rental apartments and any of Canada’s existing 650,000 social housing units. Legitimate private landlords and property managers would not be impacted. This measure is aimed at preventing corporate entities like REITs, Hedge Funds, and private equity funds from purchasing affordable housing. These entities do not function like landlords, instead their function is to either liquidate and redevelop the real estate, maximize revenues through poor maintenance leading to renoviction and increasing rents, and generally financialize these properties as assets." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Cut off some corporate landlords from low-interest federal loans, preferential tax treatment, and mortgage loan insurance

    "We will also cut off handouts – including low-interest federal loans, preferential tax treatment and mortgage loan insurance – for big corporate landlords who gouge their tenants." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Provide an additional $2B to the Rental Protection Fund to help non-profits, tenant associations, and housing co-ops buy up affordable apartments to keep them affordable

    "And we will boost the Rental Protection Fund by providing an additional $2 billion to help non-profits such as tenant associations and housing co-ops purchase thousands of affordable apartments, to keep them affordable when they come onto the market." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

We don't have any Green policies on Renting and rental housing.

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