RentSafeTO: Apartment Building Standards is a bylaw enforcement program established in 2017 to ensure that owners and operators of apartment buildings with three or more storeys or 10 or more units comply with building maintenance standards. Learn more about RentSafeTO.
This dataset contains building evaluation scores for buildings registered with RentSafeTO. During evaluations, Bylaw Enforcement Officers inspect common areas, mechanical and security systems, parking and exterior grounds.
In 2023, RentsafeTO updated its evaluation process. Buildings must undergo evaluation at least once every two years, increasing the number of evaluation categories to 50 and allocating a weight to the category.
Each category item is inspected and assigned a score from one to three with one being the lowest and three being the highest. At times, an item may be assigned a score of 0 if it cannot be evaluated due to an obstruction or refusal to inspect. Additionally, if an item is not applicable to the building at the time of evaluation, the score will show as blank in the dataset.
To download data from building evaluations before 2023, please download “Pre-2023 Apartment Building Evaluations" and “Apartment Building Evaluations 2023 - current” to download data from building evaluations from 2023 and beyond.
Learn more about RentSafeTO: Evaluation Tool – City of Toronto.