Rent for tenants who live on Crown land is based on the assessed value of the property -- tenants are seeing rent increases of up to 300 per cent
The BC Liberals are reiterating their calls to the NDP to take immediate action to address skyrocketing rents on Crown land. While the NDP has extended the rent freeze in B.C., stopping rent increases until the end of the year, they have excluded their government from these rule s,” said BC Liberal Housing Critic Ben Stewart. “ Rent for tenants who live on Crown land is based on the assessed value of the property and in the last year, due to increasing property values, tenants are seeing rent increases of up to 300 per cent. These kinds of increases would be incredibly concerning under normal circumstances, but in the middle of a pandemic they are unimaginable .” The Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations has had its Crown land rent policy under review for years, but this has yet to ...