Rental Registration Program

The City of Vancouver is creating a new program designed to create a more transparent and supportive rental housing environment for landlords and tenants alike. This program is the first step toward ensuring quality housing and fostering better communication and collaboration between property owners, tenants and the City. Under the rental registration program, landlords will be required to:

• Register their rental units
• Pay an annual license fee

In the future, the program will also include requirements to:

• Conduct regular inspections
• Submit evidence of inspections to the City

This program will also enhance communication with landlords and tenants on requirements, policies and resources for rental housing, and create a tenant relocation assistance fund. This fund would provide money to renters who are forced to move, due to:

• Health and safety issues
• Non-compliance by their landlord
• Natural disasters

The City will implement this new initiative in two phases. Phase 1 involves establishing a rental registration program that will go live in 2026. Phase 2 of the program implementation, which will include the design and rollout of the proposed inspection requirement, will only begin after the registration program is underway in 2026.