Response to Including New Approval Conditions for Rental Demolition Applications

3. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to use Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data on Private Apartment Average Rents, by Year of Construction and Bedroom Type - Toronto census metropolitan area for purpose-built rental buildings constructed in 2015+, by available zones, when calculating rent gap assistance for Rental Housing Demolition applications. 4. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to review impacts associated with the use of average market rents for 2015+ rental buildings and report to the Planning and Housing Committee in the first quarter of 2025 with an evaluation of this approach. 5. City Council reiterate previous requests to the Province of Ontario to protect existing renters and rental stock by: a. maintaining the City's ability to require rental replacement, including any associated conditions, as part of any rental demolition project; and b. re-introducing rent control to cover units occupied after November 15, 2018. 6. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to continue discussions with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the methodology for how vacant purpose-built rental units are surveyed as part of the annual Rental Market Report and identify improvements to ensure rental data reflects local market areas. 7. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to continue consultation with stakeholders, including tenant advocates, the Building Industry and Land Development Association, and Greater Toronto Apartments Association, as part of the development of updated implementation practices and review of the use of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data for 2015+ rental buildings. 8. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to report to the Planning and Housing Committee in the first quarter of 2025 on the feasibility of including the secondary market (condominiums) in the calculation of area-specific rent gap payments, and whether the inclusion of such properties more accurately reflects local rental markets. 9. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to make all reasonable attempts to include the new rent gap approach in Rental Housing Demolition applications subject to conditional approvals without finalized Section 111 agreements, and report back, where applicable, to the appropriate Community Council with recommendations to apply the new rent gap payment calculation in Part 3 above. 10. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to ensure existing supports and programs are available to support tenants with previous Section 111 agreements that are in danger of losing safe, similar, appropriate housing in the same District due to insufficient rent gap payments. 11. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to ensure that tenants at risk of, or have been subject to, a "demoviction" are represented at the Renters' Action Committee, established by Item 2023.MM11.34, to understand the experience with the rental replacement process, with an emphasis on understanding long-term outcomes of rental replacement on tenants' housing stability. 12. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report in the first quarter of 2025 on compliance with tenant relocation and assistance policies during the relocation period in Section 111 agreements not addressed in the Auditor General's report of February 4, 2022, regarding Rental Replacement policies. 13. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to publicly communicate outcomes of the rental replacement and tenant relocation and assistance policy. 14. City Council direct that the confidential information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to the supplementary report (March 19, 2024) from the City Solicitor remain confidential, in its entirety, as it contains advice which is subject to solicitor-client privilege. Confidential Attachment 1 to the supplementary report (March 19, 2024) from the City Solicitor remains confidential in its entirety in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege.