Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 354, Apartment Buildings outlines maintenance and operational standards for purpose-built rental buildings with three or more storeys and ten or more rental units. These standards are enforced through the City's RentSafeTO: Apartment Building Standards program, which aims to strengthen compliance with City bylaws, enhance tenant engagement and access to information, and promote proactive maintenance in apartment buildings to prevent the deterioration of critical housing stock. At its March 25, 2022 meeting, Planning and Housing Committee adopted 2022.PH32.4 – RentSafeTO Update Report and directed Municipal Licensing and Standards (MLS) to report back on directives pertaining to the program’s fee structure and evaluation tool design, in addition to requests made by Executive Committee ( 2022.EX30.2 ) in February 2022. The purpose of this report is to respond to Council direction in order to: Provide an update on critical work completed in 2023 to enhance the RentSafeTO program. This includes the redesign of the building evaluation tool to expand evaluation categories, introduce a reactive scoring scheme to reflect active violations and outstanding property standards orders, establish a new threshold for building audits and update the program’s interactive web map. Highlight the recently published 2023 RentSafeTO Year in Review report. Summarize outcomes of recent budget processes and propose additional fee changes. Through the 2024 budget process, City Council approved changes to the program’s registration and inspection fees. Propose technical amendments to Chapter 354, Apartment Buildings to support enforcement and compliance measures. Respond to outstanding Council directives related to staff resources and jurisdictional research.
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