Jay Cockburn

Jay Cockburn is a journalist and audio producer who covers the politics of urban space. He has written for the Toronto Star about gargoyles, and reported and produced 99% Invisible’s “The Missing Middle.” Prior to moving to Toronto he worked at the BBC in London for eight years.

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Investigation by Jay Cockburn

The New Middlemen of the Rental Market

With demand high and renters desperate, property management companies like Urby Housing are using non-standard rental agreements that try to sidestep the protections of the Residential Tenancies Act in creative, increasingly brazen ways.