Your Rights

Each section on this page gives you access to useful tools and information on your rights as a tenant.
If you have additional questions or need more support, get in touch with your local housing committee.

Before Signing a Lease

You have rights when searching for housing.

Lease Termination

Terminate, transfer or sublet: the options to “break your lease”.

Letter Templates

To help you write your own letters, formal notices, and agreements.

Living Conditions

Necessary repairs, insects, vermin, mold… You have a right to decent living conditions.

Preparing for your Hearing

You have a hearing coming up at the Housing Tribunal? This is how you can prepare.

Rent Increases

Your landlord cannot increase your rent whenever they feel like it. And in any case, you have the right to refuse.

Repossession and Eviction

Your landlord is trying to repossess or evict you from your dwelling? You can defend your rights.

Various Issues

Other problems that might come up during your lease.

Other resources

Community resources

Association des Groupes de Ressources Techniques du Québec

Confederation of Organizations of the Personalities of Quebec

Face à face(aide de relogement pour personnes en situation d’itinérance)

Fédération des locataires d’habitations à loyer modique du Québec

Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec

Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain

Ligue des droits et libertés

Réseau Québécois de l’Action communautaire autonome

Regroupement des Auberges du Coeur

Regroupement des organismes en défense collective des droits

Réseau Québécois des OSBL d’habitation

Union des consommateurs

Equijustice

Association des organismes de justice alternative du Québec (ASSOJAQ)

Government Resources

Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec

Commission d’accès à l’information

Montreal Municipal Housing Office (OMHM)

Protecteur du citoyen

Quebec Housing Tribunal

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

Quebec Housing Society (SHQ)

Problems with Housing?

Find your housing committee

Each section on this page gives you access to useful tools and information on your rights as a tenant. If you have additional questions or need more support, get in touch with your local housing committee.