Getting Started

Just found us? Want to get the full story on what the Landlord Credit Bureau is and what your rights as a tenant are? Here is an index to our introductory guides (all links open in a new tab).

“A Good Kick in the Ass for the Not-So-Good Tenants”

• Danielle Paradis reporting for Canadaland

CANADALAND#365 An App For Landlords To Blacklist Tenants

• Jesse Brown broadcasting for Canadaland

 ‘Consent Is Not Required’: List Of ‘Positive And Negative’ Tenant Behaviour Raises Privacy, Discrimination Concerns

• Jack Hauen reporting for Queens Park Briefing

‘Free benefit’ or blacklisted? Hamilton tenants and landlords clash over private information

• Sebastian Bron reporting for The Hamilton Spectator

LCB has responded to the Spectator article. You can read about it here:

• Important Correction Concerning Landlord Credit Bureau and Security Freezes
• My Building is For Sale and Displacement is “Upside Potential”
• Hamilton Fire Department Issues Inspection Order for Livewell Properties Building
• Though I am but a Beast, Do I Not Deserve To Live?
• LCB Deploys Canadian Tenant Inspection Services to Intimidate Renters

• Office of the Privacy Commissioner investigation into Landlord Credit Bureau (findings pending)
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner investigation into LiveWell Property Management (findings pending)
• Ministry of Government and Community Services investigation into Landlord Credit Bureau for Consumer Reporting Act violations (findings pending)
• Exposed the secret field in the LCB Tenant Record viewable only by landlords and forced LCB to change its policy
• After our reporting LCB stopped claiming EI3PA data security certification
• Engagement from NDP MPP Jessica Bell, Opposition Housing Critic
• Engagement from NDP MPP Andrea Horvath, Leader of the Opposition (MPP for our riding)
• Engagement from NDP MP Matthew Green (MP for our riding)
• Engagement from Hamilton Ward 2 Councillor Maureen Wilson
• Engagement from Hamilton Ward 3 Councillor Nrinder Nann

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