Ontario's Community Legal Clinics are funded by Legal Aid Ontario to provide legal services for low-income individuals and families in a variety of areas of law including Landlord and Tenant or housing law. Clinics can also help you to find support and advice by directing you to other community agencies that provide assistance and information.
To find the community legal clinic for your area, you can check the Legal Aid Ontario web site and enter your postal code. You can also find a map and full listing of community legal clinics - general service, specialty community legal clinics, and student legal aid services societies in Ontario on the Your Legal Rights Services Map. For more information, see:
- Service by type - Legal Clinics - General Service
- Service by type - Legal Clinics – Specialty
- Service by type - Student Legal Aid Services Society (SLASS)
The Housing Help Association of Ontario (HHAO) is a provincial association of community based, not-for-profit organizations delivering free housing help services that prevent and reduce homelessness. To find your local housing help association visit findhousinghelp.ca.
If you live in the Greater Toronto area, the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (FMTA) runs a Tenant Hotline. If you have any questions about your rights as a tenant in Toronto, you can call the hotline at: 416-921-9494.
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) is a charitable, non-profit organization in Canada dedicated to ending discrimination in housing and promoting human rights in housing. CERA has offices in Toronto and Ottawa.
If you think you are experiencing discrimination in housing, contact the Human Rights Legal Support Centre.
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211 Ontario is an information and referral hotline that gives help in many languages. Dial 211 for free from any phone in Ontario. They take calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For general information on finding legal help visit: I need legal help, but have limited income and can't afford a lawyer. What can I do?
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Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) works to better the housing situation of Ontario residents who have low incomes including tenants, co-op members and people who are homeless. ACTO...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA)
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) is a charitable, non-profit organization in Canada dedicated to ending discrimination in housing and promoting human rights in housing. CERA...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
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Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) works to better the housing situation of Ontario residents who have low incomes including tenants, co-op members and people who are homeless. ACTO...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
Algoma Community Legal Clinic
Algoma Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of the Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma district. The clinic assists clients with Criminal Injuries Compensation matters...Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA)
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) is a charitable, non-profit organization in Canada dedicated to ending discrimination in housing and promoting human rights in housing. CERA...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
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Other Law-related Services
Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples (CSSP)
Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples (CSSP) provides summary advice and assistance, with particular emphasis on immigration matters and workers’ rights, to the Spanish-speaking community of...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic
Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of Chatham and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
CLEO - Community Legal Education Ontario/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario
CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario) develops materials and projects to help low-income and disadvantaged communities understand their legal rights. A...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
Clinique juridique francophone de l'Est d'Ottawa
Clinique juridique francophone de l'Est d'Ottawa provides free legal services to low-income francophone residents of East Ottawa.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Clinique juridique Grand-Nord/Grand-Nord Legal Clinic
Clinique Juridique Grand-Nord Legal Clinic provides free legal services in French and English to low-income residents of Kapuskasing and surrounding area.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Clinique juridique populaire de Prescott et Russell Inc.
Clinique juridique populaire de Prescott et Russell Inc. provides free legal services to low-income residents of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
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Legal Clinics - General Service
Clinique juridique Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Legal Clinic
Clinique juridique Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of Cornwall and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Community Advocacy & Legal Centre
Community Advocacy & Legal Centre provides free legal services to low-income residents of Belleville and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Community and Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP)
Community and Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP) provides free legal services to low-income residents of Toronto and to York University students. CLASP also provides free legal services to low-...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Student Legal Aid Services Society
Community Legal Aid
Community Legal Aid provides free legal services to University of Windsor students and low-income people in the Windsor-Essex area. Services are provided by law students supervised by...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Student Legal Aid Services Society
Community Legal Assistance Sarnia
Community Legal Assistance of Sarnia provides free legal services for low-income residents of Sarnia and Lambton County.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Community Legal Clinic - Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk
Community Legal Clinic - Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk provides free legal services to low-income residents of the counties of Brant, Haldimand, and Norfolk.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Community Legal Clinic - Simcoe, Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes
Community Legal Clinic - Simcoe, Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes provides free legal services to low-income residents of Simcoe County, Haliburton County, and Kawartha Lakes.Regions served:
Central Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Community Legal Clinic of York Region
Community Legal Clinic of York Region provides free legal services to low-income residents of York Region.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Community Legal Services
Community Legal Services University of Western Ontario provides free legal services to low-income residents of London and Fanshawe College and Western students. Services provided by law...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Student Legal Aid Services Society
Community Legal Services of Niagara South
Community Legal Services of Niagara South provides free legal services to low-income residents of the Southern Niagara region. Services available in French at Fort Erie satellite office.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Community Legal Services Ottawa Centre
Community Legal Services Ottawa Centre provides free legal advice and/or representation to low-income clients in the following areas of law: landlord and tenant, social assistance, immigration,...Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Downsview Community Legal Services
Downsview Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area served by the clinic in north Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Downtown Legal Services
Downtown Legal Services (DLS) is a community legal clinic operated by the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. It offers free legal services to low-income residents of Toronto and to...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Student Legal Aid Services Society
Durham Community Legal Clinic
Durham Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of the Durham region.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
East Toronto Community Legal Services
East Toronto Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in east Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Elgin-Oxford Legal Clinic
Elgin-Oxford Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of Elgin and Oxford counties.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Elliot Lake & North Shore Community Legal Clinic
Elliot Lake and North Shore Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of the Algoma District who seek assistance in either French or English.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations
The Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (FMTA) is a non-profit organization which advocates for better rights for tenants. Founded in 1974, it is the oldest and largest tenant federation in...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services, Other Law-related Services
Flemingdon Community Legal Services
Flemingdon Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in east Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Francophone legal advice line - Eastern Ontario
French-speaking callers in eastern Ontario can get free, confidential legal advice and referrals by telephone.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Aid Ontario Services
Francophone legal advice line - Greater Toronto Area
French-speaking callers in the Greater Toronto Area can get free, confidential legal advice and referrals by telephone.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Aid Ontario Services
Francophone legal advice line - Northern Ontario
French-speaking callers in northern Ontario can get free, confidential legal advice and referrals by telephone.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Aid Ontario Services
French Legal Summary Advice Line - Southwestern Ontario
The French Legal Summary Advice Line of Southwestern Ontario offers free summary advice and referrals in French to low income residents within southwestern Ontario. Financed by Legal Aid Ontario,...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic
Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of Grey and Bruce counties.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
HALCO - HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario
HALCO - HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario provides free legal information, advice, and representation for people in Ontario who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. HALCO also produces...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
Halton Community Legal Services
Halton Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low- income residents of the Halton region.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic/Clinique juridique communautaire de Hamilton
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic/Clinique juridique communautaire de Hamilton provides free legal services to low-income residents of Hamilton.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Housing Help Association of Ontario
The Housing Help Association of Ontario (HHAO) is a provincial association of community based, not-for-profit organizations delivering free housing help services that prevent and reduce homelessness.Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Huron/Perth Community Legal Clinic
Huron/Perth Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of Stratford and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Investigation and Enforcement Unit
You can contact the provincial government's Investigation and Enforcement Unit (IEU) if your landlord violates your rights under the Residential Tenancies Act. For example, if your landlord:...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
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Other Government Services
Jane Finch Community Legal Services
Jane Finch Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in north Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Kensington-Bellwoods Community Legal Services
Kensington-Bellwoods Community Legal Services (KBCLS) provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographhical area the clinic serves in central Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Kingston Community Legal Clinic
Kingston Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income people in Kingston, Ontario and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Kinna-aweya Legal Clinic
Kinna-aweya Legal Clinic provides legal advice and assistance to the residents of the District of Thunder Bay, particularly Aboriginal people, who need assistance with poverty law issues such as...Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Lake Country Community Legal Clinic
Lake Country Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income people in the District Municipality of Muskoka and District of Parry Sound.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Lanark, Leeds & Grenville Legal Clinic
Lanark, Leeds & Grenville Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Landlord and Tenant Board
The Landlord and Tenant Board's role is to provide information about the Residential Tenancies Act and to resolve disputes between most residential landlords and tenants. The Ontario Rental Housing...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Court and Tribunal Related Services
Landlord's Self-Help Centre
Landlord's Self-Help Centre (LSHC) provides information and summary advice to small-scale landlords province-wide. LSHC also develops educational materials, engages in law reform activities...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
Law Society Referral Service
You can call the Law Society Referral Service (LSRS) to get the name of a lawyer. You then call the lawyer and, within three business days, the lawyer should call you back to arrange a free...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Finding a lawyer
Legal Aid Ontario
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is an independent, publicly funded, and publicly accountable non-profit corporation that administers the province's legal aid program. Legal Aid Ontario's mandate in the Legal...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Legal Aid Ontario Services
Legal Assistance of Windsor
Legal Assistance of Windsor provides free legal services to low-income residents of Windsor.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County
Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County provides free legal services to low-income residents of Guelph and Wellington County.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Manitoulin Legal Clinic
Manitoulin Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low income people in the District of Manitoulin. Please note that the exact location as displayed by Google Maps below may not be accurate. The...Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic
Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (MCSA) provides advice and representation to low-income Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. The...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
Mississauga Community Legal Services
Mississauga Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of Mississauga and Malton. Mississauga Community Legal Services is also on Facebook at https://www.facebook....Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area, Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Neighbourhood Legal Services
Neighbourhood Legal Services gives free legal help to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in central Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Neighbourhood Legal Services (London & Middlesex) Inc.
Neighbourhood Legal Services (London & Middlesex) Inc. provides free legal services to low-income residents of London and Middlesex County.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Niagara North Community Legal Assistance
Niagara North Community Legal Assistance (NNCLA) provides free legal services to low-income residents of St. Catharine's and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Nipissing Community Legal Clinic
The Nipissing Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of North Bay and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation
Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation (NALSC) delivers and coordinates a range of legal services to members of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN). NALSC is owned by the First Nations of Nishnawbe...Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Other Law-related Services
North Peel & Dufferin Community Legal Services
North Peel & Dufferin Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of Brampton, Caledon and Dufferin County.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Northumberland Community Legal Centre
Northumberland Community Legal Centre provides free legal services to low-income residents of Northumberland County. The clinic assists low income people with a range of legal issues including...Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Northwest Community Legal Clinic
The Northwest Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of the Kenora and Rainy River Districts from its three offices located in Fort Frances, Kenora, and Atikokan.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Parkdale Community Legal Services
Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) is a community-based legal clinic for low-income residents of the Parkdale and Swansea neighbourhoods in west Toronto. PCLS provides direct legal...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Peterborough Community Legal Centre
The Peterborough Community Legal Centre provides free legal advice and/or legal representation for low-income residents of Peterborough City and County in the following areas: Ontario Works/welfare,...Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Property standards inspections
Sometimes a government inspector's report can help get your landlord to do repairs, or can be used as evidence at a Landlord and Tenant Board hearing. To have your place inspected, you can phone your...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Other Government Services
Queen's Legal Aid
Queen's Legal Aid provides free legal services to low-income residents of Kingston, Napanee, southern Frontenac County and southern Lennox and Addington County, as well as Queen's University and St....Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Student Legal Aid Services Society
Renfrew County Legal Clinic
Renfrew County Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of Renfrew County.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Rent Banks
In some areas of Ontario, there are programs, usually called rent banks, that might be able to help if you are having a temporary problem paying your rent. To find the rent bank in your area, you can...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Rexdale Community Legal Clinic
Rexdale Community Legal Clinic provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in north Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Rural Legal Services
Rural Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of northern Frontenac and northern Lennox and Addington counties.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Scarborough Community Legal Services
Scarborough Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in the east of Midland Avenue Scarborough region of...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Services d'aide juridique du CFT
Services d'aide juridique du CFT through the Centre francophone de Toronto provides free legal services to low income French-speaking people who live, study or work in Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
The South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) provides advice and representation to low-income South Asians in the Greater Toronto Area. The clinic also conducts public education, law reform, and...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - Specialty
South Etobicoke Community Legal Services
South Etobicoke Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in west Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
South Ottawa Community Legal Services
South Ottawa Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents in Ottawa, south of the Queensway and east of Fisher Avenue.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Sudbury Community Legal Clinic/La Clinique juridique communautaire de Sudbury
Sudbury Community Legal Clinic/La Clinique juridique communautaire de Sudbury provides free legal services to low-income residents of Sudbury and surrounding areas.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Tenant Duty Counsel
Tenant duty counsel (TDC) are lawyers and community legal workers who help tenants at most Landlord and Tenant Board locations. TDC do not charge for their services, however you must qualify...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Court and Tribunal Related Services, Legal Aid Ontario Services
Timmins-Temiskaming Community Legal Clinic/Clinique juridique communautaire Timmins-Témiskamingue
Timmins-Temiskaming Community Legal Clinic/Clinique juridique communautaire Timmins-Témiskamingue provides free legal services to low-income residents of the Timmins area.Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Unison Health and Community Services
Unsion Health and Community Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area the clinic serves in west Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
University of Ottawa Legal Clinic
University of Ottawa Legal Clinic provides free legal services to University of Ottawa students and low-income residents of the Ottawa area. Services provided by law students supervised by...Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Student Legal Aid Services Society
Waterloo Region Community Legal Services
Waterloo Region Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the Waterloo region. The clinic is open to the public from Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
West End Legal Services of Ottawa
West End Legal Services of Ottawa provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area served by the clinic in west Ottawa.Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
West Scarborough Community Legal Services
West Scarborough Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents in the geographical area bordered by the East side of Victoria Park Avenue to the West side of Midland...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
West Toronto Community Legal Services
West Toronto Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of the geographical area served by the clinic in west Toronto.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Willowdale Community Legal Services
Willowdale Community Legal Services provides free legal services to low-income residents of North York.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
Windsor-Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic/Clinique Juridique Bilingue (WINE)
Windsor-Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic/Clinique Juridique Bilingue (WINE) provides free legal services to low-income residents of Windsor and Essex County. Service is available in English and...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Legal Clinics - General Service
