The high cost of rent is the number one issue for New Brunswick tenants, according to advocates and a recent survey by the New Brunswick government.
“Students, people on low incomes, people on disability pensions or other pensions are finding it extremely difficult to make ends meet,” said Matthew Hayes, a Fredericton sociologist and member of the New Brunswick Coalition for Tenants’ Rights.
N.B. Housing Minister David Hickey says he is looking to address tenant and landlord issues during a modernization of the Residential Tenancies Act.
As part of that process, a survey was launched in April, asking what people would like to see change in the rules and supports that currently exist.
About 2,800 people responded, Hickey said. Sixty-seven per cent of them were tenants, 12 per cent were landlords and the rest were housing advocates and other stakeholders.
They identified some consistent problems, he said.
The most common, according to the government’s summary, was affordability. Others were delays in getting repairs done or decisions from the Tenant Landlord Relations Office and a lack of clarity in the rules around evictions.
According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which measures rent each fall, the average monthly rate in October 2025 was $1,307 provincewide (ranging from $904 in Campbellton to $1,427 in Fredericton).
That was up from $928 in 2021.
The current average, according to Apartments.com,
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