Rental Housing Tribunals: A Case Study of Ontario

by Andreea Musulan, Political Science PhD Student, University of Toronto

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This website hosts the supplementary material for my working paper: Musulan, Andreea, The Winners and Losers of Rental Tribunals (February 14, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4029114

The data was collected from the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII): Canadian Legal Information Institute (2021). Ontario - Landlord and Tenant Board | CanLII.

Orders:

The following tables contain the filtered texts for each order used in this project (from 2006 to 2021). Each case has a randomized unique identifier (Case ID), the date of the decision (Date), the LTB office associated with the order (Office Location), a randomized unique identifier for adjudicators (Adjudicators), sections of legislation (the Residential Tenancies Act or the Statutory Powers Procedure Act) mentioned (Act Sections), the applicant and victor (“l” for landlord, “t” for tenant) based on the models developed for this study (Applicant and Winner), and finally, the preprocessed text of the order (Order Text).

2006-2011, 2012-2019, 2020-2021

Maps:

The following maps display tenant and landlord applications identified across 10,063 out of 17,744 publicly available Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) orders issued in 2020 and 2021.

The size of the circles indicates the number of applications advanced by landlords and tenants, by postal code for each year.

Each circle contains a pop-up marker containing a place name associated with each postal code, followed by the total number of orders issued for each postal code.

The colors correspond to 6 themes identified using unsupervised machine learning (CorEx). Evictions for nonpayment of rent are in yellow, evictions based on failure to meet the conditions of a previous settlement or order are in purple, agreements between landlords and tenants to terminate tenancies are shown in blue, references to the 2020 eviction moratorium are in red, and orders involving changes to rent are in pink. Finally, the green circles represent a broader theme that includes but is not limited to orders involving interference with reasonable enjoyment, property damage or removal, unauthorized occupants, compliance with health and safety standards, and changing locks.

Year	Applications	Victories
2020	Tenants	Landlords
2020	Landlords	Tenants
2021	Tenants	Landlords
2021	Landlords	Tenants