FOG BLOG NB NEWS LOG: TENANTS GROUP CALLS ON HIGGS GOV'T FOR BETTER TENANT PROTECTION:
I'VE BEEN WRITING THIS STORY ON MY RIDICULOGS CONSTANTLY SINCE OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR WHEN A TENANT IN MONCTON WAS INFORMED THAT IN JANUARY, A MONTH AGO NOW , THE RENT WILL INCREASE FROM $750. A MONTH TO OVER $1100., OVER 50% INCREASE, MOST PROVINCES PUT THE CAP TO 10%. NOW A TENANT GROUP IS CALLING ON HIGGS TO LOOK AT RENTAL LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PUT A MORITORIUM ON EVICTIONS BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT PANDEMIC PLUS CAPS ON RENT INCREASES.....A STORY LAST NIGHT ON THE NEWS HAD A LADY, MENTIONING HER RENT WAS GOING UP BECAUSE OF THE SALE OF HER BUILDING TO ANOTHER OWNER AND NOW WITH BEING OUT OF WORK THE TENANT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO LIVE THERE, BUT NO MATTER WHAT IS BEING SAID , IT SEEMS, BLAINE HIGGS WANTS TO IGNORE THE SUBJECT. IN AN INTERVIEW BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND WHEN ASKED , HE WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT ON BUILDING OWNERS IN REGARDS TO IT FINANCIALLY. NOVA SCOTIA HAS LEGISLATION IN PLACE THAT WAS INACTED IN THE FALL. ......enants living in Saint John have started a group to better protect renters from evictions in New Brunswick.
Over the course of several months, tenants from different apartment buildings across the province have been evicted from their homes as they are purchased and renovated by investors from across the country, who later increase the rent.
"Tenants are without protection," said Raven Blue, an advocate for tenants living in Saint John.......he local group of tenants has teamed up with ACORN Canada, a national multi-issue, membership-based community union of low-to-moderate income people.
Their first goal is to reinstate the ban on evictions during the pandemic. When COVID-19 first broke out, the province announced a ban on tenant evictions, but that was lifted in June.
"It makes no sense to still be allowing evictions when we're in the middle of a global pandemic and everyone's locked down," said Raven, part of ACORN's New Brunswick chapter.
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