Okay sooo, everyone has been dramatically clutching their pearls over Bill 60, but like… can we please look at the actual numbers for five seconds? Because once you do, the whole “evil landlord apocalypse” storyline kinda collapses like a Jenga tower at a bottomless mimosa brunch.
Here’s the tea: every year the Landlord and Tenant Board gets around 88,000 applications.
And guess what? 78,000 — literally the vast majority — are filed by landlords, not tenants. Tenants file like 10,000. That’s it. And even juicier? Out of those landlord filings, 60% are about one thing:
Non. Payment. Of. Rent.
Like babes… people… pay your rent. I’m sorry but it’s giving “main character energy” to scream about Bill 60 being anti-tenant when the main crisis is actually thousands of landlords waiting months (or YEARS) just to get a hearing because someone hasn’t paid rent since the Trudeau government still had good poll numbers.
And it gets even messier: the LTB delays have literally created a whole new archetype — the professional tenant. These are the girlboss scammers of the rental world who know exactly how slow the system is, so they just… don’t pay. For months. Sometimes years. They move from unit to unit leaving landlords with tens of thousands in losses while flashing the “you can’t evict me, it’ll take forever” card like it’s a Sephora Rouge membership. It’s giving “rental fraud influencer,” and honestly? Bill 60 is the first thing with enough backbone to actually stop that vibe.
So yes, Bill 60 is here, and yes, it’s like massively overdue. Because the current system? Total dinosaur energy. The backlog at the LTB is so bad you could grow a whole new identity before your case gets heard. Meanwhile, small landlords — like the regular humans renting out basement suites to pay their mortgages — are drowning.
And the bill basically says: “OMG can we stop making housing supply worse by trapping small landlords in bureaucratic quicksand?”
Schedule 12 is actually trying to speed things up, clear the backlog, and stabilize the rental market. Because when landlords can’t deal with non-payment for a year, they quit being landlords. And when they quit? Guess what disappears? Housing. Poof. Gone. Like your paycheck on Queen Street.
And yes, it gives landlords a little more ability to move forward with things like renovations or redevelopment — but like hello?? Ontario desperately needs housing. We literally cannot afford processes that take longer than a TTC delay during rush hour.
Plus, more supply = less chaos = rent that doesn’t feel like a legalized mugging.
And the whole “omg displacement!!!” meltdown? Girl. No. Renters who actually pay their rent and aren’t blocking necessary repairs are not suddenly getting yeeted into the abyss. Bill 60 is more like:
“Let’s stop pretending rent is optional.”
“Let’s unclog a system stuck in 2019.”
“Let’s actually build housing before everyone ends up in their parents’ basements.”
It’s honestly giving “finally someone’s being the adult in the room.”
So yeah, bestie, Bill 60 isn’t the villain — it’s the glow-up Ontario’s rental system desperately needed. The LTB stats don’t lie: too many cases, too much non-payment, too many professional tenants gaming the system, and too many landlords trapped.
You can’t fix the housing crisis while pretending rent is a suggestion.
And Bill 60? She’s just saying the quiet part out loud.
XOXO,
Valley Girl News
Currently hiding from my landlord, bye!!
