Danyluk leads delegation to New York and Toronto to investigate innovative solutions to homelessness
The four-day information-gathering trip will take place from August 26 to August 29, 2007. The Minister will be joined by the ministry’s Deputy Minister, Assistant Deputy Minister of Housing, as well as his Executive Assistant. During their stay, the delegation will meet with senior housing officials and operators from New York and Toronto.
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Four winners awarded Alberta Consumer Champion distinction
The 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
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Alberta government creates one-stop service centres for housing pressures
The Alberta government has created one-stop service centres for housing pressures. The centres are meant to assist in a number of areas including:
emergency housing, rent supplements and general housing programs and services.
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Changes to Tenancy Laws 2007
Service 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)
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Province establishes safety standards for secondary suites
The Alberta government has created new construction and maintenance standards for secondary suites. The new standards follow 12 recommendations from an MLA review committee on secondary suites , which are self-contained living units that include a kitchen, bathroom and separate exit created in a single-family home.
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