Our goals are:

  • To organize and encourage the organization of tenants
  • To educate tenants and the general public about issues concerning tenants and housing policy
  • To provide information, resources and assistance to tenants through our hotline, outreach and organizing team and workshops
  • To further the interests of tenants by lobbying and otherwise campaigning for (real) tenant protection laws
  • To promote decent and affordable housing as the right of all Canadians

Activism

We believe we will never win better rights for tenants unless we are all working together and raising our voices. Recent FTMA activism news is below and you can follow the links to the right to get involved.

FMTA Joins Facebook!

The FMTA board put up a facebook fan page for the FMTA!

Become a fan of the FMTA and learn more about our great work and campaigns.

Join our fan page here.

Organizer and Outreach Position - Jobs

 

 

 

 

Services provided by the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations and

funded by the City of Toronto

 

 

Landlord and Tenant Board Telephone Hearings Halted

The FMTA, Advocacy Centre for Tenants of Ontario (ACTO) and the Tenant Duty Counsel Program scored a victory this month when the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) halted telephone hearings in the Southwest region of Ontario.

Reply from the Landlord and Tenant Board

The Chair of the Landlord and Tenant Board replied to our letter expressing concerns about tenant access to justice, and the economic crisis.

To read the letter, click on the Word attachment.

Submission to the Ontario Energy Board on Hydro Sub-Metering

Overview

1. The Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (the FMTA) is a non profit incorporated organization with the sole purpose of advancing the interests of residential tenants. The Federation was founded in 1974.

Letter to the Chair of the Landlord and Tenant Board

May 6, 2009

Dr. Lillian Ma
Chair
Landlord Tenant Board
777 Bay Street, 12th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2E5

Dear Dr. Ma,

Thank you for meeting with us on April 30. We believe that it is very important that we dialogue from time to time. In this meeting, we raised two main issues:

Discrimination in Rental Housing - OHCR

[img_assist|nid=127|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=292|height=80] The Ontario Human Rights Commission is interested in hearing about discrimination in rental housing.

Reply from the Minister of Housing

June 27, 2005

 

Dear Ms. Loponen:

Thank you for your letter of May 24, 2005, regarding the Tenant Protection Act, 1997 (TPA) and specifically the key issues regarding tenants' rights throughout the province.

FMTA Advocacy is NOT funded by the city of Toronto.