“Defending Our Homes”, which also finds that one in five Hamilton renters spent more than half of their paycheque on rent.The landlord licensing bylaw that the group wants Hamilton councillors to consider is already in effect in some municipalities in British Columbia, including the city of New Westminster in Metro Vancouver.It tackles the practice of “renovictions” — when a landlord evicts a tenant under the guise of doing renovations and then raising rent on the unit — by introducing strict fines for landlords who evict tenants without notice, or who fail to provide them right of first refusal after renovations are done.“The time is now – we can’t wait any longer,” said Mike Wood, chair of the downtown chapter of Hamilton ACORN. “We need.