Appendix B

SH notification

social housing

Amendments to Ontario Regulation 367/11 under the Housing Services Act, 2011 including a new provincial eligibility rule on the refusal of offers, rules on household preferences for a housing project and changes to a Service Manager's authority to make a local rule where a household ceases to meet occupancy standards. The amendments come into force on January 1, 2020.

September 23, 2019

Release: 19-09

This notification provides an overview of regulatory amendments to Ontario Regulation 367/11 under the Housing Services Act, 2011 including a new provincial eligibility rule on the refusal of offers, rules on household preferences for a housing project and changes to a Service Manager’s authority to make a local rule where a household ceases to meet occupancy standards. The amendments come into force on January 1, 2020.

1. Provincial Rule on Refusal of Offers

Effective January 1, 2020, section 39 of the regulation is revoked and any local rule made under this section may only continue to apply as described below. Section 39 of the regulation allowed Service Managers to make a local rule providing that a household would no longer be eligible for rent—geared—to—income assistance if the household refused a minimum of three offers of rent-geared-to-income assistance from a Service Manager.

The regulation is amended to set out a new provincial rule in section 32.2 and states that a household would no longer be eligible for rent-geared-to-income assistance if a household refuses an offer from a Service Manager for assistance in a unit where the unit meets the Service Manager’s occupancy standards and is in a housing project for which the household has expressed a preference. Section 32.2 provides that: