Bill 60 Has Passed: What Just Happened to Tenant Rights in Ontario

Ontario’s Bill 60 — the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act — has passed. Amid raucous protests and warnings from housing advocates, legal clinics, and municipalities across the province, the Ford government rammed through legislation that fundamentally rewrites the rules between landlords and tenants.

And they did it fast. On November 6, 2025, the government passed a time-allocation motion to limit debate on Bill 60, with no review by a Standing Committee or public hearings. After being tabled on October 23, the bill was ordered for third and final reading on Monday, with debate capped at two hours. This is law now. Here’s what it means.

Faster Evictions, Shorter Windows to Fight Back

Tenant appeal times have been slashed from 30 days to 15 days.

If you lose a hearing at the Landlord and Tenant Board, you now have half the time to gather evidence, find a lawyer, and file an appeal.

Landlords, meanwhile, get expedited hearings and faster paths to eviction.

The grace period for unpaid rent has been cut from 14 days to 7 days.

As one legal clinic director put it: “If it is easier to get the money together and stop the process in 14 days, there are going to be predictably a number of people who can’t do it in seven days, which means more cases are going to go to the LTB” .'

Harder to Fight Negligent Landlords

Bill 60 limits tenants’ ability to raise maintenance issues during eviction hearings for nonpayment of rent. Even if your unit is uninhabitable — black mold, broken heating, unsafe conditions — it’s now much harder to withhold rent or bring counterclaims at the LTB.

This removes one of the few tools tenants have to force landlords to maintain their properties.

No Compensation for “Personal Use” Evictions

Landlords moving back into an occupied rental unit won’t have to compensate the impacted tenant as long as they give 120 days notice . Previously, landlords had to provide one month’s rent as compensation when evicting a tenant for personal use.

This change removes a financial disincentive against bad-faith evictions — where landlords claim they need the unit for themselves or family, evict the tenant, then re-rent it at market rate months later.

The Rent Control Scare (Partially Walked Back)

When Bill 60 was first introduced, the government floated consultations to end “security of tenure” — the system where leases automatically convert to month-to-month, allowing tenants to stay indefinitely unless the landlord has legal grounds to evict them. This would have effectively killed rent control in Ontario.

After massive public backlash and over 23,000 emails from tenants, the government backed down on those specific consultations. But every other anti-tenant provision remained.

Who This Hurts

Ontario is experiencing a homelessness crisis — over 81,500 people were experiencing homelessness in 2024, a 25% increase since 2022, with the crisis growing fastest in rural and northern communities. In London alone, roughly 2,000 people were active on the municipal homelessness list in October, with over 1,000 categorized as chronically homeless.

Facilitating faster evictions and stripping tenant protections will accelerate this crisis. The people most at risk: seniors, people with low incomes, those on social assistance, anyone with a history of housing instability.

The Process Was Undemocratic

The government bypassed public hearings entirely, preventing tenants, people experiencing homelessness, municipalities, and organizations from providing meaningful feedback . They introduced the bill on October 23, fast-tracked it through second reading, skipped committee stage, and passed it within weeks.

An open letter signed by over 130 organizations — including legal clinics, food banks, student unions, and housing advocates — called this process “wildly anti-democratic.”

What Happens Now

The damage is done. Bill 60 is law. Ontario’s 3 million renting households now face a system tilted sharply toward landlords who already held most of the power.

A government spokesperson claimed the bill “restores balance and rebuilds confidence in Ontario’s rental housing market by protecting responsible tenants” . But tenant advocates see it differently: this isn’t about balance.

It’s about making it easier to evict people and harder for them to stay housed.

The government claims this will unlock rental supply and reduce LTB backlogs. But just months ago, the Executive Director of Tribunals Ontario stated they’re on track to eliminate backlogs by the end of 2025-26 with no policy changes needed.

The backlog was already being addressed. This was never about efficiency.

It was about power — shifting it away from tenants barely hanging on, toward landlords who lobbied for exactly these changes.

If you’re a renter in Ontario, the rules just changed beneath your feet. And they didn’t change in your favour.