About Us

Welcome to LandlordConnect!

www.landlordconnect.ca  is a RENT resource, piloted in 2006/07. It is an online centre of information and vacancy listing, facilitating the identification of private landlords offering affordable housing, and providing support to partnerships between landlords and housing help services. The aim of landlordconnect.ca is to have more units of housing in the private rental market found and kept by the clients served in the housing help sector.

Housing help services are a critical link between people precariously housed and affordable housing units available in private rentals, social housing, supportive housing, and other housing types. They help people at risk of losing their housing by mediating relationships with landlords, ensuring that tenants make connections with income supports, specialty funds, and/or the community services they require to keep their housing.

Housing workers use independent processes to find landlords who will rent to their clients such as newspaper advertisements, contacting neighbourhood landlords, answering landlord inquiries, and developing relationships and informal referral agreements with landlords. While effective, these approaches can result in duplicated efforts, missed landlords that may be willing to rent to homeless or at-risk clients, or inadvertently inundate landlords in certain neighbourhoods with frequent inquiries from multiple housing workers.

Landlordconnect.ca is a coordinated resource. It does not replace individual or localized efforts currently made by housing workers, but to link those efforts and augment those efforts. Its goal is to support frontline work by providing more housing options to all housing services across the city, which, in turn, will give workers more time to devote to supporting and providing follow-up services with their clients.

For landlords, landlordconnect.ca provides free rental advertising, a connection to housing workers, assistance with arranging housing follow-up services, and a forum to register issues and successes they have when working with community agencies. For housing workers, landlordconnect.ca compiles and maintains up-to-date information on housing available for their clients, introduces relationships with new and existing landlords, provides housing vacancy information, and a forum to register issues and successes they have when working with private landlords.

Associating each unit filled through landlordconnect.ca with a housing help service provides a significant and effective resource for preventing eviction should the tenancy become vulnerable. This is a requirement of landlordconnect.ca with its members. In this way, landlordconnect.ca actively builds relationships that reduce homelessness.