A row of older semi-detached brick houses on a Toronto street, illustrating multi-tenant house licensing.
Municipal Rules and By-laws

Toronto rooming houses are now legal city-wide — and there is a list you can search by address

Multi-tenant houses have been permitted across all of Toronto since 31 March 2024, with mandatory annual licensing under Chapter 575. The fees, the room caps that are set by zoning rather than the by-law and differ by district, the $100,000 penalties and $10,000-a-day continuing offence, the advertising reverse onus, and the daily-refreshed open dataset a buyer can check.