A year later, N.L. still working on plan to deal with rule-breaking landlords and tenants
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Last spring, Caio De Naday Hornhardt believed his former landlord had done him wrong, with a same-day eviction.
He spent weeks trying to figure out how to have fines imposed on the landlord under the Residential Tenancies Act — a story he shared at the time.
De Naday Hornhardt found that while the written law was clear, the enforcement of it was not.
A year ago, provincial government officials acknowledged there was a gap in the system, and pledged to take action.
But they still haven't finalized that work, leaving De Naday Hornhardt waiting and wondering.
"It feels awful — it feels, I don't know what's happening," he said.
"Of course, I'm not inside the government, so I don't know all the details why it's taking so long."
And he's not the only one seeking to find out more.
"I've been trying to get updates from the government over the past six months or so," said Sherwin Flight, administrator of a Facebook group for landlords and tenants in the province with about 29,000 members.
"And the answers are just vague answers — you know, that things are coming soon, things are in the works, in the coming weeks, those kinds of answers."
In a statement, the Department of Digital Government and Service NL said they're working on a pilot project to help address some of the concerns people have raised.
The Liberal government brought in a new Residential Tenancies Act in 2018, and highlighted an initiative aimed at curtailing violations.
"The new legislation will see (an) increase in penalties from a maximum of $400 to a maximum of $10,000 for corporations and $3,000 for individuals," then-minister Sherry Gambin-Walsh told reporters at the time.
"It is our hope that the increase will encourage compliance with the act."
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