These changes:
- require landlords to provide a reason to end a lease - ending ‘no grounds’ terminations for tenants
- make it easier to keep a pet in a rental home
- limit rent increases to once per year for all lease types
- prevent extra fees at the start of a tenancy, including fees for background checks and for preparing a tenancy agreement
- ensure tenants can pay rent by bank transfer.
Some nice changes. I’d also like to see limits not just on how often rent can be increased, but by how much. There’s a vague “above market rate” consideration for excessive rent increases, but it’s probably not all that enforceable.