General resources for tenants:
If you are facing harassment:
- Steps to Justice — Online Guide to Tenant Rights in Ontario
- What Tenants Need to Know About the Law Guide — Community Legal Education Ontario
- Harassment and Discrimination Guide — Community Legal Education Ontario
- T2 — Application Form to the Landlord and Tenant Board About Your Tenant Rights
- Demand letter about harassment courtesy of Neighbourhood Legal Services
- Form for documenting harassment by your landlord courtesy of Neighbourhood Legal Services
If you have problems with repairs and maintenance in your unit:
- Steps to Justice — Online Guide About Repairs and Maintenance
- Pest Problems (mice, cockroaches, bedbugs) in Your Unit — Steps to Justice
- Repairs and Maintenance Guide — Community Legal Education Ontario
- T6 — Tenant Application Form About Maintenance
- City of Waterloo Bylaws and enforcement
- Demand letter to your landlord about repairs and maintenance courtesy of Neighbourhood Legal Services
- Form for documenting incidents and communication with your landlord about repairs and maintenance courtesy of Neighbourhood Legal Services
If you have problems with rent increases and evictions
- Steps to Justice resources on evictions
- Steps to Justice resource on rent increases
- Web tool for tenants who are roommates and share rental housing costs — Community Legal Education Ontario
- Does your landlord want you to move out factsheet — Community Legal Education Ontario
- Fighting an Eviction — Community Legal Education Ontario
- Rent Increases — Community Legal Education Ontario
- Guide to N13 forms - Social Development Centre
Organizing a Tenants' Association
One of the best ways to secure your rights as a tenant is to form a tenants' association. If you want to organize a tenants' association in your building, please reach out to our office and we will connect you to support on this process.
- Tenant Organizing Best Practices Slides — courtesy of 280 Wellesley St. E. Tenants' Association
- Tenant Survival Manual — Federation of Metro Tenant Associations
- Tenant Organizing Tips — Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network
- Tenant Organizing Manual — Community Legal Education Ontario
Organizations that can help you with your housing issues, or support your organizing
- Waterloo Region Community Legal Services
- Eviction Prevention Waterloo Region
- Lutherwood's housing services
- For general housing legal assistance Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
- For racialized groups, elderly, people with disabilities - Specialty Clinics, Community Legal Education Ontario
- If you have questions about your human rights and/or discrimination in housing — Human Rights Legal Support Centre
- If you need legal aid — Legal Aid Ontario
- If you need advice on the phone about tenant rights as soon as possible — Pro bono Ontario
- If you are a senior with housing problems who cannot afford a lawyer — Advocacy Centre for the Elderly
- If you have housing issues related to a disability or in which you require medical-related accommodation — Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
- If you have questions or need support related to cooperative housing — Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada
If you are looking for housing: