Non-payment of rent: Too large a proportion of the files submitted!
Category |
2019-2020 |
2020-2021 |
2021-2022 |
Rent-setting and revision |
6 451 |
7 250 |
7 201 |
Non-payment of rent |
39 284 |
24 094 |
32 322 |
Civil cases |
23 475 |
20 404 |
24 458 |
TOTAL |
69 210 |
51 748 |
63 981 |
Too large a share for non-payment of the rent: 32,322 files out of 63,981 are for non-payment of rent, i.e., 50.52%. A strong proportion on the rise for non-payment of rent files since the beginning of the pandemic: 46.56% (2020-2021), 33.91% (2019-2020).
This constantly rising proportion is worrisome because it is not only tenants who are affected by a tenant’s non-payment of rent, the landlord is also affected. If the rent is not paid, the landlord will have to find another financial solution to pay his mortgage. And a landlord who does not pay, will see the bank claim payment of his mortgage even at the risk of the landlord losing his building.
According to the tenant associations, non-payment will become more frequent as costs and inflation rise.
The APQ is therefore calling for more housing assistance for tenants, an increase in eligibility thresholds to give assistance to more tenants.
A new system for non-payment of rent is also needed to free up these long hearing delays. The security deposit remains, according to the APQ, the best way to achieve this with a procedure for non-payment that would make it possible to render a decision on the view of the file in the absence of contestation by the tenant.
Disproportion between cases initiated
63% are brought by landlords!
Civil cases |
2019-2020 |
2020-2021 |
2021-2022 |
Landlords’ cases |
13 497 |
12 424 |
15 419 |
Tenants’ cases |
9 419 |
7 487 |
8 480 |
TOTAL CIVIL CASES |
23 475 |
20 404 |
24 458 |
Retraction of a decision: Also a worrisome phenomenon!
Among the causes brought by tenants, 21.21% concern the retraction of a decision while it is only 3.46% for the causes of rental housing owners.
Tenants’ cases |
9 419 |
7 487 |
8 480 |
Retraction of a decision |
2 250 |
1 482 |
1 799 |
Landlord cases |
13 497 |
12 424 |
15 419 |
Retraction of a decision |
479 |
454 |
534 |
Files closed for lack of proof of notification
Type of conclusion |
2019-2020 |
2020-2021 |
2021-2022 |
Requests closed due to lack of proof of notification |
- |
2 106 |
4 542 |
TOTAL Pre-Hearing requests completed |
13 411 |
15 002 |
17 922 |
Percentages |
0% |
14% |
25% |
With the new procedures put in place where evidence must be notified within 45 days, 25% of the files are closed by non-production of these documents, a proportion of 25% which is too important: A recall procedure would be better.