On November 24, 2025, Ontario’s Bill 60, also known as the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025, was passed to make amendments to various acts, including the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006. The bill is expected to receive Royal Assent later this week in order to become law.
Bill 60, also known as the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025, is an Ontario law aimed at speeding up housing and infrastructure projects by reducing delays in government processes, including those at the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). The purpose is to streamline processes to stimulate the rental market and make it easier to build more affordable housing. It achieves this through changes like streamlining eviction processes, cutting appeal times, and altering compensation rules for certain evictions.
What Has Bill 60 Changed?
- Ending a lease or evicting a tenant must be done through a form approved by the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). No exceptions.
- Eviction notices for non-payment of rent can now be issued after 7 days instead of 14 days.
- If the landlord is evicting for personal use (for themselves or their family), they may do so with 120 days’ notice, and the compensation of 1 month’s rent or a relocation option is no longer required.
- Tenants must now pay at least 50% of the overdue payments claimed if they wish to raise issues at an eviction hearing. New issues may not be raised at hearings related to non-payment of rent without a prior notice.
- The LTB’s ability to delay or overturn evictions will also be regulated. Any requests to review their decision must be made within 15 days instead of 30 days.
What Does This Actually Mean for Landlords & Tenants?
Although specifics on lease agreements and renewals in the Residential Tenancies Act have not been altered, the process for evictions or tenancy terminations has been re-standardized. For example, landlords and tenants must now only use a Board-approved form as a notice of termination.
Benefit for Landlords:
Bill 60 has made the eviction process smoother and faster for landlords. If tenants are not paying their rent, landlords can now send an eviction notice after 7 days instead of 14 days. This reduces the financial loss for landlords. Tenants will have to pay up-front costs to defend themselves at hearings. This helps to rebalance the power that has, for many years, favoured tenants and put landlords at a disadvantage when it comes to receiving rent and evicting bad tenants.
Landlords will also no longer be required to compensate tenants or offer them another rental unit when they wish to use the unit for themselves or their family. Overall, the new amendments are beneficial to landlords, helping them manage their property and handle tenant issues much more effectively.
What Tenants Should Be Aware of:
Before, they didn’t have to pay to raise their issues during a hearing, but now they do. Many renters withhold paying their rent if they have problems with the property or landlord, and will tend to make their case heard during a hearing with the LTB.
To address this problem, the new rules make it more difficult for tenants to avoid paying rent and delay the issue until their hearing. Now, for tenants who wish to challenge any non-payment evictions, they must pay half the amount the landlord claims is owed in order to raise their own issues or disputes (such as maintenance or harassment) at the hearing.
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