May 2026 Project Update
ALRI publishes Residential Tenancies Act: Ending a Tenancy, Issues Paper 8. The paper is the third in a series of publications that catalogues the common issues that tenants and landlords experience when renting, or renting out a home. Issues Paper 6 was an overview of issues tenants and landlords faced generally throughout a tenancy. Issues Paper 7 focused on issues that arose in the process of a tenant finding a home to rent, or landlord renting out a home. Issues Paper 8 focuses on issues that arise when a landlord or tenant needs to end a tenancy.
Get Residential Tenancies Act: Ending a Tenancy, Issues Paper 8.
March 2026 Project Update
ALRI publishes Reviewing Alberta’s Residential Tenancies Act: Before and During a Tenancy. This visual summary is a companion document for ALRI’s last publication, Residential Tenancies Act: Before and During a Tenancy, Issues Paper 7. The summary outlines common issues landlords and tenants face when creating a tenancy as well as issues that arise during the tenancy.
Get Reviewing Alberta’s Residential Tenancies Act: Before and During a Tenancy here.
January 2026 Project Update
ALRI publishes Residential Tenancies Act: Before and During a Tenancy, Issues Paper 7. This report outlines the common issues that tenants and landlords experience while looking for a home to rent, creating a residential tenancy, and during the duration tenancy.
Get Residential Tenancies Act: Before and During a Tenancy, Issues Paper 7 here.
October 2025 Project Update
ALRI publishes videos on common issues it heard about during its consultation and distress for rent, a remedy that allows a landlord to seize and sell a tenant’s property if rent is unpaid.
March 2025 Project Update
ALRI has published its Issues Paper, Residential Tenancies: General Issues. This is the first in a series of reports summarizing issues in the law that affects tenants and landlords on a daily basis. The publication will be used to guide ALRI’s further work on the Act and inform the work of other agencies that may address issues with the law that are outside the scope of ALRI’s project.
Download Residential Tenancies: General Issues.
October 2024 Project Update
ALRI held 5 consultation events in 2023-2024 and heard from over 100 people that represented individual tenants, landlords, organizations and service providers. ALRI has spent the last year analyzing the results, identifying issues and setting priorities for reform. ALRI will publish a report on its research in the coming months to share what we found. ALRI will then begin developing policy options for reform. That phase of the project may occur in separate steps over the course of a couple years.
One of ALRI’s first priorities is addressing notices and whether landlords or tenants should be able to use electronic communication to give each other formal notices required under the act.
ALRI has identified other issues with the Residential Tenancies Act including those involving leases, evictions, dispute resolution, and deposits among others. These will require further consultation before it can propose recommendations for improving the law. Opportunities to participate in consultations will be communicated in the near future as they arise.
