COVID-19 crisis.The government is implementing a repayment framework to ensure renters have a reasonable timeframe to pay back any rent they owe.
Landlords have to give tenants until July 2021 to repay any outstanding rent, as long as monthly instalments are paid.The plan will come into place once the ban on issuing evictions for non-payment of rent is lifted.The ban on rent increases will remain in place until December.
B.C. extends coronavirus rental benefit, ban on evictions for unpaid rent “These changes will build on the extension of our Temporary Rent Supplement program and give renters until next summer to gradually pay back any unpaid rent to help them maintain their housing, while also continuing the ban on rent increases until.