Tenants in a midtown lowrise say they've been hit with a major rent increase and that a corresponding boost services promised by their landlord never materialized.

About 40 tenants at a building on Mallory Gardens in the Yonge-St. Clair Avenue area were told in September their rents would be going up by roughly five per cent in 2026 — more than twice the province's allowable increase, set at 2.5 per cent this year.

Wendy Morrow, a tenant organizer with the Federation of Metro Tenants Associations (FMTA) said the landlord — Westbury Rental Residences — applied to the province's Landlord and Tenant Board last year for an above guideline rent increase (AGI). The application was made on the grounds that the landlord had made improvements to the building in the past 18 months, she said.

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