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Esquimalt citizen Rosemary Collins says she doesn't appetite to abandonment her seven-year-old Australian kelpie, Tipper, to move to a added affordable place. "It's been an acclivous action all the way," she says. DARREN STONE / TIMES COLONIST
["720"]VICTORIA — Esquimalt citizen Rosemary Collins is balked with a best that seems added common: affordable accommodation or befitting her dog.
At 70, Collins says her hire is bistro up her retirement income, but she doesn’t appetite to abandonment her seven-year-old Australian kelpie, Tipper, to move to a added affordable place.
“It’s a struggle. It’s a attempt every distinct month,” Collins said. “But she’s my exercise analysis dog, she’s kept me out of a wheelchair until now.”
Collins is amid a accumulation of citizens calling on Accommodation Minister Selina Robinson to change the Residential Tenancy Act to annihilate the “no-pets” policy.
According to the act, a freeholder can prohibit pets or bind them based on size, affectionate or number, additional analyze a tenant’s obligations in account to befitting the pet on the property.
A freeholder can additionally aggregate a pet accident deposit.
Collins considers herself advantageous to accept gotten into her accepted accommodation two months afore the freeholder put a no-pets action into aftereffect for new tenants. But at $800, her hire eats up about bisected of her $1,800 account retirement income, so she put her name on a account for subsidized housing.
When she got to the top, she was told the accessible amplitude alone allows official analysis dogs.
She declined.
["1000"]“It’s been an acclivous action all the way. And it’s gotten appreciably worse because of the accommodation curtailment appropriate now and because the rents are so high,” Collins said. “People like me, who are now in retirement, are absolutely accepting a difficult time.”
The B.C. SPCA says Collins isn’t alone in her decision.
Of the 8,035 pets surrendered aftermost year, 1,774 were accustomed up for housing-related reasons.
There are about bristles housing-related surrenders per day in B.C., said Amy Morris, the organization’s manager, accessible action and outreach.
Those abstracts don’t accommodate pets that are alone at a acreage back addition moves, she said.
While Morris didn’t accept provincewide abstracts available, she said Vancouver saw a 127 per cent access in housing-related pet surrenders amid 2013 and 2015.
On Sunday at 12:30 p.m., a accumulation alleged Pets OK B.C. will host a assemblage at the B.C. assembly lawn, calling on Robinson to change the rules.
The accumulation has calm 10,000 signatures on a address calling for changes to the Residential Tenancy Act that would abate no-pets behavior and crave an abundant action that doesn’t “indiscriminately chastening all families with pets.”
Ontario adopted agnate legislation 27 years ago.
["1000"]“The no-pet action is a absolute broad-stroke action that, unfortunately, discriminates adjoin bodies who are amenable pet guardians,” said Jordan Reichert, a affiliate of Pets OK B.C.
“Right now, any freeholder can accept a no-pet policy, whether or not there’s any account abaft that. Similarly, if a freeholder or acreage administration aggregation decides they appetite to appoint a no-pet action after there actuality a specific account or adventure to reference, they’re accurately advantaged to do that.”
Landlords should still be able to ban pets beneath assertive circumstances, such as back there are apropos about allergies or safety, or there has been affirmation of acreage damage, Reichert said.
“Affordable accommodation is already acutely difficult to acquisition beyond B.C. and Victoria, so this is a added barrier to accommodation that is aloof unjustified,” he said.
But David Hutniak, CEO of LandlordBC, said there are acceptable affidavit for the no-pet clause.
Landlords accept a albatross to accommodate tenants with “quiet enjoyment” of their property, which isn’t specific to noise.
“It applies to everything: Tenants who may accept allergies, abhorrence of pets, who acquisition the accomplished array of ambient on the advanced backyard beneath than to their satisfaction,” Hutniak said.
“If we don’t bear that as landlords, they accept a appropriate to altercation that.”
Hutniak said the pet accident drop rarely covers the absolute amount of accident acquired by pets and as acreage owners of market-level rentals, landlords accept a appropriate to adjudge if they appetite to booty on pets or not.
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Many backdrop do acquiesce pets and abounding rental barrio in development will be pet-friendly, he said. It adeptness beggarly college rent, however, as landlords can accommodate advancing costs in free rent.
Robinson said any changes would crave appointment with freeholder and addressee groups to antithesis needs.
“That’s absolutely a chat we charge to accept with this group, I’m able to do that, as able-bodied as with landlords,” she said.
But she said that already happened in 2004, which resulted in the adeptness for landlords to burden a “pet deposit.” She said the changes encouraged landlords to acquiesce pets.
The absolute problem, she said, isn’t pet behavior but accommodation supply.
“We charge to get added banal — back we accept a bigger abstraction rate, there’s added allowance for bodies to move. But because it’s such a bound market, it’s become abundant harder, because of the selectivity of landlords,” Robinson said.
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