The "Keep Your Rent" movement is retarded. It makes more sense financially to evict a tenant who won't pay any rent and leave the property vacant than it is to let them use your property for free. Homes require maintenance. Living in a home incurs a financial cost. Both in the short-term (utility bills) and long-term (maintenance, repairs, renovations). The more you use your home, the more maintenance it needs in the long-run.

And guess what? The greedy landlords who expect too much rent in a province of 12.2% unemployment will get punished by the free market. When they play the game of musical chairs and find out that they have to compete with a ton of other landlords for a lower number of reliable tenants with jobs.

The high housing costs in the Greater Toronto Area, Greater Vancouver Area, etc. by the way are caused by mass immigration and NIMBYs pushing back against the construction of affordable housing in their neighbourhood. It's politically incorrect for Canadians to advocate for reducing immigration. But it's more politically acceptable for NIMBYs to advocate against building affordable housing in their neighbourhoods. And the NIMBYs in Toronto, Vancouver, etc. are far more likely to get their way than the immigration skeptics. This is why we're in the cluster fuck situation we're in. If the NIMBYs don't want affordable housing in their hood, then we can't have this mass immigration. If you insist on mass immigration, you need more affordable housing.