FOG BLOG RIDICULOG: F.M. ERNIE STEEVES TABLES BUDGET AND THROWS RENTERS UNDER THE BUS!

READ THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT WHICH IS DIRECT FROM ERNIE STEEVES REGARDING RENT CONTROLS AND THE '23-'24 BUDGET , AGAIN THEY ARE MORE WORRIED ABOUT BUILDING OWNERS OR PURCHASERS THAN THE TENANTS PAYING RENT HERE IN NEW BRUNSWICK!.............While there is no cap on rent increases in the budget this year to help tenants or newcomers, Steeves said the government will give $1 million toward a new IT system for the residential tenancies tribunal. He said the government is helping alleviate the housing crunch with the building of new properties and by encouraging private developers to build.

“We are also helping them with the rent tribunal,” he said.

“We don’t want anybody taken advantage of. (But) in order to keep the business growing, and the housing industry growing, we thought a rent cap was counterproductive.”..........THERE IS ONE LADY THAT DID IN FREDERICTON RECENTLY . SHE WENT TO THE 'TRIBUNAL' GOT NO WHERE BECAUSE THEY SAID THE RENT INCREASE WAS IN LINE WITH OTHER RENTS OR INCREASES IN THE AREA SHE LIVES IN . THE LADY MENTIONED SHE IS IN A RUN DOWN RENTAL BLDG WITH VERY LITTLE MAINTENANCE AND SHOULD NOT BE PAYINT THE RENT SHE IS ,LET ALONE THE HUGE $700. INCREASE. SO ERNIE STEEVES SO MUCH FOR THE HELP OF THE TENANCIES TRIBUNAL! I UNDERSTAND ENCOURAGING GROWTH AND YOU DON'T WANT TO SCARE AWAY PROSPECTS WITH STRICT RENT RESTRICTIONS ON PROPERTY OWNERS BUT THE TENANTS ARE HAVING A TOUGH TIME OF IT. NOVA SCOTIA SEEMS TO MAKE IT WORK WITH A RENT CAP AGAIN IN PLACE AND BY THE LOOKS OF HALIFAX DOWNTOWN, THERE IS A THRIVING CONSTUCTION BOOM GOING ON FOR RENTAL UNITS ETC. TIME TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF THIS PROVINCE , MAKE IT A PLACE AFFORDABLE TO LIVE IN!