RentSmart Education + Support Society (RSESS)
Who we are
ABOUT US
RentSmart© Education builds capacity and is empowering. Being a tenant is not an innate skill but is a combination of a number of different skills that can be learned: legal rights and responsibilities, financial management, communication and maintenance skills. Tenants, landlords and community organizations all benefit from RentSmart© Education and knowledge.
OUR IMPACT
Our intention is to increase the delivery of our in-demand, high-quality tenant education courses and increase participants knowledge, skills + confidence to find + maintain appropriate housing.
We Work With
Educators
BENEFITS TO BECOMING AN EDUCATOR
Rent Smart is delivered by many organizations and housing providers. Our principles of empowerment and never mandating education meets principles of consumer choice and self-determination, client-driven supports, and providing supports that can be accessed regardless of housing form. We find that for people exiting homelessness, RentSmart Basics is the best 'fit'. The RentSmart Certificate program works as people are moving along the housing continuum to more independent living.
We have tools to support you.
Resources to support course delivery.
Rent Smart Certification for participants.
Deliver the RentSmart program and training in your community
Become a Certified Community Educator
We Work With
Organizations
BENEFITS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Rent Smart is delivered by many organizations and housing providers. Our principles of empowerment and never mandating education meets principles of consumer choice and self-determination, client-driven supports, and providing supports that can be accessed regardless of housing form. We find that for people exiting homelessness, RentSmart Basics is the best ‘fit’.
The RentSmart Certificate program works as people are moving along the housing continuum to more independent living.
We have tools to support you.
Resources to support course delivery.
Rent Smart Certification for participants.
Want to discuss how we can work together?
Get In Touch with us
Topics we’ll discuss:
How rental education can support your clients.
Why an ongoing subscription is an ideal solution for your organization.
How Rent Smart can support your organizational goals.
RentSmart In Action
Latest Projects + Innovation
Being community leaders in the rental education industry, it’s important that we stay true to our mission of transforming lives through rental education, by means of developing current + relevant training to ensure impact is made within our communities.
OUR IDEAS
We develop timely solutions to expand our tenancy education through our programs + collaborations.
OUR RATIONALE
We recognize that for progress, there must be innovation.
A NEW RentSmart Workshop
RTA
This virtual workshop is geared at housing providers + front-line staff working to support clients who are struggling with housing instability, evictions, difficult tenancies and would like to strengthen their understanding of BC Residential Tenancy Act. We cover topics such as:
- Scope of the law,
- Requirements of a tenancy,
- Roommate, assignment and sublet situations,
- Rights and responsibilities,
- Evictions and the process involved in dispute resolution with the Residential Tenancy Branch.
A NEW RentSmart Region
NUNAVUT Territory
Atuqtuatsiarniq Iglulirijikku,nit
(the name of this project in the Inuktitut language)
Rent Smart has taken on its first customized tenant education project with the Government of Nunavut-Nunavut Housing Corporation. This project is in partnership with Ilitaqsiniq-Nunavut Literacy Council and led by an advisory council of Nunavut stakeholders.
This is an exciting and challenging project and we look forward to sharing more as it is developed.