11-19-2021, 07:52 PM
(11-19-2021, 06:43 AM)plam Wrote:(11-18-2021, 10:59 PM)taylortbb Wrote: I think this is a perfect example of a well intentioned policy that would have negative effects in practice.
Families aren't going to want to live in this area, so large units would just end up being 5 bedroom student units. Unless the city is going to ban students from specific units (which would never fly at the OHRC), it would achieve nothing but making living arrangements shittier for a couple dozen students.
Turns out that student status (in itself) is not a protected grounds of discrimination under Canadian and Ontario human rights law. My previous townhouse complex banned renting to students. I was surprised and read the Charter of Rights and, nope, it's not there. Age is, of course.
As usual with Charter restrictions on age discrimination, it is legal to discriminate against young people. A townhouse complex would be allowed to ban either anyone under 55 from living in it, or ban families with minor children.