My landlord is a billionaire. Why can’t I breathe in my apartment?

Ontario’s premier and his developer friends are punching down hard, not just by weakening rent control and other tenant protections but by slashing Toronto’s share of the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit. The Ford government cut the city’s allocation from $38 million in 2024 to $19.75 million in 2025, and to just $7.95 million in 2026. My landlord belongs to an extraordinarily wealthy development family with extensive real estate holdings across Ontario. They are part of a small circle of powerful developers that have benefited enormously from the province’s decades-long real estate boom.