Most Ontario evictions done without a hearing, says advocacy group. (General).TORONTO -- More than half of eviction orders eviction order evict n → Räumungsbefehl m filed in Ontario from June 1998 to December 2001 were granted without a hearing--and a Toronto advocacy group says that raises questions of fairness. The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO ACTO Action Officer ACTO Amazonian Cooperation Treaty Organization ACTO Army Communicative Technology Office ACTO Association of Charter Train Operators (UK) ) has asked the provincial ombudsman ombudsman (äm`bədzmən) [Swed.,=agent or representative], public official appointed to deal with individual complaints against government acts. to investigate the practices of the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal. From 1997 to 2001, applications to the tribunal filed by landlords and tenants increased from 49,679--mostly for evictions--to 72,196. Of those, more than 60,000 were for evictions. The current Tenant Protection Act became law in 1998. Granting evictions without a hearing may be cost-efficient, but it unnecessarily costs tenants their housing, said ACTO Legal Director Kathy Laird. Half of the eviction The removal of a tenant from possession of premises in which he or she resides or has a property interest done by a landlord either by reentry upon the premises or through a court action. applications filed in Ontario outside of the GTA GTA Grand Theft Auto (legal) GTA Grand Theft Auto (video game) GTA Greater Toronto Area (Canada) GTA Graduate Teaching Assistant were for arrears of less than $625, the centre said. Almost 35,000 landlord applications to the tribunal were resolved by default order in 2001 compared with only 58 of the tenant applications. Under the act, tenants have five days to file a written response to an eviction application. About 40 per cent of Ontario households are tenants. 416-597-5855 x5168 |
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