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News ArchiveFor current news items, click here ____________________ Four winners awarded Alberta Consumer Champion distinctionThe Legal Studies Program (Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta) and the Alberta Real Estate Foundation received the Award of Distinction for their joint work to create an educational website on renting in Alberta: Laws for Landlords and Tenants in Alberta ______________________________________________________________ Alberta government creates one-stop service centres for housing pressuresThe Alberta government has created one-stop service centres for housing pressures. The centres are meant to assist in a number of areas including: _______________________________________________________________ Changes to Tenancy Laws 2007Service Alberta oversees and enforces the laws that set out the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants in Alberta. Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act and Mobile Home Sites Tenancies Act are being introduced that will limit rent increases to once a year for fixed term and periodic leases. If passed, the changes will be retroactive to April 24, 2007. With the new limits in place, landlords must still give three month's notice to tenants before rents increase. For mobile home sites, the notice is period is 180 days. Landlords wanting to end a tenancy to do major renovations or to convert a rental unit to a condominium will need to provide at least one-year notice and rental increases will not be allowed during that year. Changes to landlord-tenant legislation to help stabilize rental market (news release) April 2007 ________________________________________________________________ Province establishes safety standards for secondary suitesThe Standards include specifications for ceiling heights, windows, fire protection, interconnected smoke detectors, heating and ventilation systems, as well as separate exits. Click here for the complete government news release and backgrounder. Secondary suites information page from Municipal Affairs November 2006 ________________________________________________________________ $5 million approved for new rent supplement program in EdmontonThree orders of government are joining forces to provide rental assistance to an estimated 400 low-income households in Edmonton. The new program is part of the City of Edmonton's Cornerstones Plan, and will receive $5 million over five years to provide rent supplements for families in urgent need of housing assistance. A total of $2.5 million will be invested in this initiative under the Canada-Alberta Affordable Housing Program Agreement. The City of Edmonton will also provide $2.5 million and will administer the program. Click here for the full Government news release October 2006 ___________________________________________Final consultation on proposed safety standards for secondary suitesSecondary suites are self-contained living units created within single-family homes. These suites include a kitchen, bathroom and a separate entrance, and provide Albertans with an affordable housing option. An MLA review committee chaired by Moe Amery, the MLA for Calgary-East, consulted with municipalities and the public across Alberta on whether safety standards should be developed for secondary suites. The committee has presented a final report on this matter and recommended the adoption of building and fire standards. Click here to read the MLA committee's final report (pdf) Changes to rules for home suites could mean more Alberta housing (CBC news story) August 2006 _________________________________________________________________ Changes to
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Other Resources
See Alberta Government Services - Landlord and Tenant for the Table of Concordance (pdf). A table of concordance is the information that shows where and how a law has changed or is going to change. The table will refer to a section of the existing law by number and then indicate if that section will have a new number or not. The table will then describe what the change to the section will be and sometimes will also give the reason for the change.
See the Queen's Printer for the new Residential Tenancies Act.
Voluntary Code of Practice provides information about the law for landlords and tenants.
November 2004