Writers
Who reports on renting in Canada for Renterly, and what each of them covers.
Housing Records Reporter
David works from the paper trail — tribunal orders, corporate filings, building inspection scores and the ownership chains behind them. He covers what the record shows about a landlord: how often they file to evict, what an adjudicator found, and fancy holding structures. His interest is in the gap between a portfolio's public face and its docket, and how transparency works to help tenants. He came to Renterly from data journalism, and still thinks the most useful thing you can do with a housing story is publish the underlying rows.
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Housing Policy Reporter
Sarah covers everything to do with housing policy and its effect on tenants. She writes about the rules that decide what a tenant pays: the annual guideline in each province, the exemptions that quietly remove a building from rent control, and the difference between what a rent increase notice says and what a tenant actually owes. She reads the regulations and the Gazette so renters do not have to, and writes up what changed in the terms a lease is argued in. Before Renterly she spent six years in municipal reporting in Montreal and Ottawa.
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