"It's not because the zoning changed or the incentives aren't real, but because of the things nobody is writing about," he says. The current LTB law in Ontario, adds Sage, may be in existence to protect tenants from the "worst landlords," but they do not take into consideration the homeowner who turns a dwelling into a multiplex. Any owner of a multiplex dwelling stuck with a "horrible tenant they just cannot get rid of impacts them heavily personally," he says. Sage points out many multiplexes currently in existence in older parts of the city of Toronto go back as far as the 1930s during the Great Depression. "By converting old Victorian homes, that was the one way that the owners could stay there.