No mention of vacancy decontrol in the article which, if I am correct, was introduced by Mike Harris in an effort to "balance" the situation. I seem to recall the public relations creation of the sports car owning tenant happily accumulating wealth and taking luxurious vacations because of decades spent living in rent controlled apartments. The idea was to allow rents to be raised to market value; the reality was landlords finding any excuse to evict tenants in order to rent to a new tenant at a higher rent. The newly created rent tribunal assisted landlords greatly in this endeavour. Result was a massive increase in homelessness, documented in the Golden Report on Homelessness and Poverty.  Harris' other action was to stop the Ontario government from building new rental housing, which also coincided with Ottawa getting out of building affordable housing. TCHC then decided that salaries and head office renovations took precedence over repairs and thus we have the current crisis. .