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.
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Ah, some good news!
I recommend reading (or at least skimming) both those pages zero_gravitas linked, they’re good summaries with key information, e.g. two of those changes were enacted from 31 October 2024, since these (and a couple of changes yet-to-come) were passed in October 2024.
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.
