From the BC Financial Services Authority:
Licensee Considerations: With the enactment of Bill 14, the landscape of residential tenancies in B.C. is changing significantly. It is important for licensees to familiarize themselves with these amendments to ensure compliance and to effectively advise clients.
Changes already in effect include:
Prohibiting personal occupancy evictions in purpose-built rental buildings with five or more units;
Increasing the minimum landlord’s occupancy period from six months to 12 months where a tenancy ends for landlord use;
Prohibiting rent increases for additional occupants who are minors and making it an offence to do so; and
Prohibiting a landlord from giving frivolous notices to end tenancy.
Changes effective July 18, 2024 included:
Requiring landlords to use the new web portal to generate Notices to End Tenancy for personal occupancy;
Increasing the notice period that a landlord must give a tenant for eviction for personal use from two months to four months; and
Increasing the tenant dispute period from 15 days to 30 days.
Changes set to come into effect through future regulations include:
Prohibiting conversion of rental units to specific non-residential uses, such as short-term rental accommodation or storage;
Prescribing increased amounts of compensation for evicting long-term tenants for landlord use;
Clarifying the criteria by which a landlord can legally end a tenancy for a problematic tenant; and
Increasing administrative penalties for contraventions of the Residential
