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May 17 2012 Landlords & Tenants Collect 400,000 lbs of Food for 31 Ontario Food Banks Over 2,500 property management staff, volunteers and tenants helped collect the food over a 3-hour period during the food drive. Over thirty companies donated trucks to help pick up food donations from over 2,000 apartment buildings and deliver them to participating food banks.

May 08 2012 Landlords want secrecy lifted to battle bad tenants FRPO President Vince Brescia responds to a Star investigation that revealed how rules governing the provincial Landlord and Tenant Board allow tenants to exploit the system with little consequence and ruin small landlords in the process.

March 27 2012 Austerity Budget Needed But Impacts on Lower Income Ontarians Regrettable

January 22 2012 Legacy of Building for Everyone: Greenwin Honoured for Contribution to Rental Housing (The Toronto Star)

December 13 2011 Average Rental Vacancy Rate in Ontario 2.2% Rents drop in real terms; Overall apartment availability=3.8%

December 06 2011 Proposed Rent Control Change is Bad Public Policy

December 01 2011 FRPO's 2011 MAC Award Winners The Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 FRPO MAC (Marketing, Achievement and Construction) Awards, as presented at FRPO’s Awards Gala Dinner on December 1, 2011.

November 19 2011 Policy Sends Landlords Back to School FRPO is taking the lead in educating members on the Ontario government's new customer service accessibility standard.

August 28 2011 The Case for a New Housing Benefit (Toronto Star) A new Ontario Housing Benefit is a strategic and practical idea that would effectively help low-income Ontarians pay the rent and move out of poverty.

February 23 2011 Ontario’s landlords want rent dispute process modernized Tenants live rent free for three months before eviction enforced

September 09 2010 New Study Finds Governments Discriminate Against Tenants A new study done for FRPO and the CFAA finds that all three levels of government in Ontario discriminate against tenants by providing huge subsidies to homeowners and not making similar subsidies available to tenants

October 05 2009 FRPO Supports Release of Human Rights Policies for Rental Housing The Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) today welcomed the release of the Ontario Human Rights Commission';s Policies on Human Rights and Rental Housing. "The policies released by the Commission today are a valuable resource for helping housing providers understand their responsibilities while helping to prevent human rights violations in the first place," said Vince Brescia, President and CEO of FRPO.

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Average Rental Vacancy Rate in Ontario 2.2%