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Editorial  more on homelessness

Editorial Opinion

It should be explained in a little more detail why we have a housing crisis in Canada. Because we want one. How can anyone justify the rules that exist now for housing in Ontario most homeless people have income from The Ontario disability pension or old age security both incomes are fixed. Most people on this kind of income now cannot look forward to buy a house or pay full market rent. So why place a limit on assets in the bank for a person that's already been housed. If you live on a fixed income things are desperate food, is it variable commodity technology is pricey. When you get housing the first thing you want to do is to make it comfortable and secure. The second is to make yourself comfortable and secure that would mean money in the bank.

The poor living in rent assisted housing in Wellington County are only allowed about three months full market rent in savings in the bank. if they go above this figure they are asked to spend the extra money paying their rent at market value even on rent, for example, a tenant living in a building receiving old age security would be asked to pay full market rent if their assets were about the three months limit. After that they are then allowed to be apply for housing and placed it at the bottom of the list. That would mean that whatever assets they had would now be gone. If the tenant was lucky, they would find housing just in time today first I'm not.

I have noticed there are Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today is addressing The United Nations in poverty in the third world. Come back home you poor be leaguered man and take a look of the people in your country lining up at the soup kitchens place