FOG BLOG NB NEWS LOG: GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION OVER HUGE RENT INCREASES AT SENIORS RENTAL COMPLEX!
N.B. government opens investigation into Fredericton rent increases.....A New Brunswick government investigator visited a Fredericton apartment building at the centre of a rent increase controversy Wednesday, and the province promised action if it finds fault with the way tenants there are being treated by a new landlord.
The dramatic move may help show whether current New Brunswick rental rules are as useful to tenants in a crisis, as government insists, or too weak to help, as critics suspect.
"The Deputy Chief Residential Tenancies Officer visited the apartment building today to meet with the tenants referenced in your story," wrote Service New Brunswick's director of communications Jennifer Vienneau.
"They were pleased to be offered assistance and departmental officials will investigate this matter. There are protections in place for tenants that are facing unreasonable rent increases."
Seniors notified of $675 rent increase face moving after 33 years in same building
N.B. senior hunts for apartment after new landlord doubles her rent
Earlier in the day, CBC News reported a number of tenants in a building at 36 Shore Street had received rent increase notices from a new landlord of between 40 and 67 per cent
Included in that group were Pauline and Charles Tramble, who received notice of a $675 per month increase in their rent starting in April. The two, who are 67 and 84 years old respectively. have lived in the building for 33 years.
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