Previously, tenants were entitled to do so unless the landlord had good cause to reject the potential transferee,[2] and allows landlords to increase prices on newly built housing without regard to the Administrative Tribunal on Housing's calculations for rent increases.

As a former real estate broker, the Minister of Housing believes that it is not up to tenants to decide on rent prices, and that lease transfers should no longer be allowed.

Minister Duranceau admitted to Radio-Canada radio that she was unaware of the number of tenants expected to be homeless on July 1, 2023.

[5][6] In November 2023, Duranceau was found to have "abusively favoured the personal interests of one of her friends (a real estate lobbyist)," by the ethics commissioner Ariane Mignolet.

The Parti Québécois and Québec solidaire linked the breach of ethics with the minister’s Bill 31 on housing.