Rent Supplement Program Information for Landlords

The Rent Supplement Program, administered by Housing Services, provides affordable housing to low-income families and individuals in Niagara.

Housing Services partners with private landlords to create rent supplement units. This means tenants receive reduced rent, called subsidized rent, in privately owned units.

Through this program:

• Tenants pay a rent that is based on their income
• Housing Services pays the landlord the difference between the tenant's rent and the market rate for the unit
• Tenants sign a standard lease with the private landlord, establishing a typical landlord-tenant relationship
• The landlord collects rent, maintains the building, and provides the same services and repairs provided to all other tenants in the building

Tenants are selected from the Housing Services wait list.

Each year, Housing Services reviews the rents charged by the landlords to ensure that they fairly reflect the market rents in the area.

On average, there are more than 700 rent supplement units under this program.