Help with rent
For renters who are behind on rent, facing eviction, or need rent they can afford.
Money for rent, free help to stop an eviction, and ways to get rent you can afford. For a bed tonight, call Central Intake at 416-338-4766
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Toronto Rent Bank (Neighbourhood Information Post, City of Toronto)
City-funded program led by Neighbourhood Information Post with nine local access centres: grants (not loans) of up to $5,000 for rental arrears, and deposit grants from...
Toronto Housing Stabilization Fund (rent, moving costs and arrears help)
Pays for rental or moving costs in Ontario, rental or energy arrears in Toronto, bed bug treatment and setting up a home in Toronto.
Eviction Prevention in the Community (EPIC), City of Toronto
A City program where a caseworker helps a low-income household that is about to be evicted make an urgent plan, apply for money supports and connect to legal, housing...
Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB) - City of Toronto
Federal-provincial rent supplement paid to households renting in the private market.
Toronto Tenant Support Program (City-funded free legal help for renters)
The City funds free legal advice and representation for Toronto renters facing no-fault evictions (N12 or N13 notices), above-guideline rent increases or repair...
Current City funding term runs April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028.
Tenant Duty Counsel Program (ACTO, funded by Legal Aid Ontario)
Free legal advice, by phone or online, for tenants who have a Landlord and Tenant Board hearing and no lawyer, given before or on the day of the hearing.
Sign up as soon as you get your Notice of Hearing, before the hearing date.
Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (FMTA) - Tenant Hotline
Free tenant-rights counselling hotline for Toronto tenants (weekdays 8:30-6, Saturdays 9-4) explaining what the law says and what options exist (not legal advice), plus...
Housing Help Centres (find yours on the City of Toronto Housing Help map)
Community agencies across Toronto that help renters find and keep housing, with help on housing applications, eviction prevention and free legal advice; the City's...
RentSafeTO: Apartment Building Standards (City of Toronto)
A City of Toronto bylaw enforcement program that makes apartment building owners keep their buildings in good repair.
Ongoing. Your landlord must respond to urgent requests (electricity, gas, heat, water, building security) within 24 hours and to other requests within 7 days. After you complain through 311, the City responds to urgent complaints within 24 hours and to other complaints within 5 to 10 days.
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR, formerly CERA)
Founded 1987 as the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation and renamed in 2022; provides free legal information and referrals to Ontario renters, legal...
National Zakat Foundation (NZF) Canada
Local zakat charity (HQ Mississauga, 256 cities) whose caseworkers assess applications 1-on-1 and pay rent directly to landlords, bills directly to payees, and...
ACORN Toronto
Member-led organization of low- and moderate-income people; Toronto chapters (East York, Scarborough, Downtown, York West, Weston) run tenant meetings and campaigns on...
Rental Housing Enforcement Unit (Ontario)
Fines can reach $100,000 for a person and $500,000 for a corporation.
No deadline, but act quickly on a lockout. Once another tenant is living in the unit, the Landlord and Tenant Board cannot order the landlord to let you back in.
Special Priority Program for Rent-Geared-to-Income Housing
The City of Toronto gives top priority for rent-geared-to-income (subsidized) housing to households leaving abuse or human trafficking.
Landlord and Tenant Board (Tribunals Ontario)
Ontario's adjudicative tribunal for disputes between landlords and tenants (and co-op occupancy) under the Residential Tenancies Act; applications are filed through the...
Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC)
Largest social housing provider in Canada and second largest in North America, wholly owned by the City of Toronto; about 92,000 residents in 41,000+ low- and...
Ontario Emergency Assistance (short-term money in a crisis)
A single person can get about $733 a month for food and shelter, more if you have children, for up to 48 days at first.
City of Toronto - Access to Housing / MyAccesstoHousingTO (Rent-Geared-to-Income centralized waiting list)
The City's centralized application system for rent-geared-to-income housing: register or create an RGI application on MyAccesstoHousingTO, get help from the Application...
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