A report on the first year of Kitchener’s rental replacement bylaw found it would apply to a total of 15 units in related development applications.

Introduced last summer with the goal of supporting tenants and helping to preserve affordable housing stock , the bylaw applies when landlords look to demolish six or more rental units for a new development or convert them to non-rental or non-residential use.

It can apply to a single property or multiple properties (if several homes with rental units are being demolished for a single development, for example), and also covers instances where existing rental buildings are converted to contain a larger number of smaller apartments.

“Early data suggests that its requirements have applied to only a modest share of overall redevelopment activit

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