Yukon’s Landlords Get A Break
From the archive. Written in 2014. Laws, figures and links may have changed since. For current Ontario rules, see what changed for Ontario landlords in 2026.
Landlords in Yukon got a break recently with a decision by the government to cancel a 13 million dollar affordable rental housing program in what is already a highly crowded rental market.
Terry Bergen of the Yukon Real Estate Association says there are currently at least 4,000 rental suites in Whitehorse. In a city that has less than 28,000 people as of the 2013 census, that’s a helluva lot of rental units. Like a lot.
Check out the story on CBC here. You can also learn a bit of the backstory here.