Rob Shaw: Weak tenancy laws do little to help B.C. landlords battle ‘cuckooing’ criminals

When John rented his Victoria family home to a newly divorced mother of two kids, who said she just needed a place to get back on her feet, it seemed like the ideal situation.

But less than a year later, he was stunned to discover his Fairfield property had devolved into one of Victoria’s most notorious drug houses — where gangsters came and went at all times of the night, where there were fights in the driveway, garbage on the front lawn, and feces, needles and used condoms strewn about inside.

His journey to eviction took months, and was full of bureaucracy and delays in a provincial tenancy system

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