If your home is unsafe, unhealthy, or putting your family at risk, Ontario law protects you. Your landlord must keep the unit in a condition that is safe, liveable, and compliant with health, building, and property standards laws.
Quorex can help you document unsafe housing and automatically generate your T6 or T2+T6 application to force repairs and get compensation.
Get Help NowUnsafe housing includes any condition that:
Ontario requires landlords to maintain heat and safe temperatures.
Landlords must keep the rental unit:
These rights exist even if your lease says otherwise.
You typically file:
When the unsafe condition relates to:
If the unsafe housing also comes with landlord harassment or neglect:
The conditions go on the T6 and the harassment or interference on the T2. Each form lists the orders you can ask the Board for.
If the Board finds that the landlord did not keep your unit or building in a good state of repair and fit to live in, or did not meet health, safety, housing or maintenance standards, it can order one or more of the following (Residential Tenancies Act, s. 30(1)). What it orders, and any amount, depends on the facts it finds.
An order that the landlord do specified repairs, replacements or other work within a set time.
A reduction of the rent for the period the problem affected.
Permission for a repair or replacement you have made or will make, with an order that the landlord pay you its cost.
The reasonable cost of repairing or replacing your belongings that were damaged because of the landlord's breach, and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses it caused you. Keep the receipts.
Where the breach is serious, an order stopping the landlord from raising your rent, or charging a new tenant more than you paid, until the work is finished.
In deciding what to order, the Board considers whether you told the landlord about the problem before you applied (s. 30(2)), so keep a copy of every repair request.
If you also file a T2, the Board can make the orders in s. 31 on that application, including an order to stop the conduct and an administrative fine.
The LTB hears your evidence at the hearing, so have it organized before you file. Here's one way to do it:
Take clear, repeated photos and videos of:
Update photos as the issues get worse.
Email or text your landlord:
Do this multiple times if ignored.
An inspector's report is an independent record of the problem and the date it was seen.
Example:
Feb 3 — Leak appears in ceiling
Feb 5 — Emailed landlord, no reply
Feb 15 — Mold spreading, child coughing
Feb 20 — Contacted Property Standards
A dated timeline lets the Board follow what happened and when.
Depending on the situation:
T6 wait times are set by the Landlord and Tenant Board and change over time. Tribunals Ontario publishes the current figures — check those rather than relying on an estimate here. Urgent health and safety matters may be expedited.
Quorex can:
You upload → Quorex builds the entire case.
Start Your ApplicationNo — that can get you evicted. File a T6 instead.
Yes. Mold is a health hazard.
They must prove that. Most issues are not the tenant's fault.
No, but it helps tremendously.
Yes. It's called rent abatement, and it's common.
Quorex makes filing for unsafe housing simple and accurate. Get your forms generated, evidence organized, and case prepared in minutes.
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