Robin Lennox MPP, Hamilton Centre

ford needs to stop his warfare against lower income individuals, even those who vote for him

I was living at 136 Bay st s apt 604 in Hamilton Ontario . i paid rent during the wait for the LTB to have their hearing. I told Homestead i had approx 3000$ for them May 1 2022. the paralegal refused the money and kicked me out. I left and ended up on the street and all over the place, shelters , family homes. I lost all my belongings. I now live up north because of this . In north bay. In bachelor when i was paying 1450 for a two bedroom. I WENT TO HEARING AND BECAUSE I DIDNT FILE THE PROPER PAPER WORK THE BOARD MEMBER SAID HE CANT DO ANYTHING, AFTER HE ASKED HOMESTEAD REPRESENTIVE IF THEY WANTED TO DROP the fees. IT WAS A JOKE. CAUSE I HAD PROOF OF EVERYTHING , EVEN THE REFUSAL OF THE 3000$ . THEN HOMESTEAD SEND MY “DEBT” TO COLLECTIONS. WHY WOULD REFUSE MONEY JUST TO PUT SOME ONE IN COLLECTIONS. THESE PPL ARE VERY DIRTY AND GRIMEY. I WANTED STABILITY NOT CON ARTISTS LEAVING ME ON THE STREET. SO I AM WITH YOU GUYS 100% DO YOUR BEST TO PROTECT THE VUNERABLE.


ONE LAST THING I TRULY BELIEVE ANYONE WHO OWES BACK RENT WHILE IN THE APARTMENT LIKE 10K 20K 50K SHOULD BE ARRESTED , WHY THEY RUINING IT FOR THE GOOD GUYS.


KEEP FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE AND THE ONES WHO NEED THE SUPPORT.


THANK YOU SO MUCH.

We also need a rent cap. My rent is already high enough and keeps going up every year. I am a single mother of two on ODSP. There needs to be a set maximum for each type of rental unit otherwise it will keep going up every year until I am forced to move due to no longer being able to afford it.

Stop on the attack on individual surviving. Renters need more protections, not less. We need a government who cares about people over corporate profits, and Doug Ford and his pals have shown time and time again that they are not it. We need rent control back! Landlords raising rents when they haven’t done anything to the property in years. We need all those things brought back! When Doug Ford cancelled Rent Control it messed everything up, look at all the homeless people in our cities ave province. It’s catastrophic.

We need rent control.

Renters need more protections, not less. We need a government who cares about people over corporate profits, and Doug Ford and his pals have shown time and time again that they are not it.

If this goes through, it’s not just private landlords and small property owners that will be conducting random evictions for those who don’t know the rights, that’s gonna happen rapidly, but the large corporations, they won’t care who they’re evicting, for the past three years there has already been something called “renovictions” going home with the landlords. They claimed they’re gonna do renovations to your unit and then they either don’t let you back in unless you pay an exorbitant price, or they affect you for not living there. Some even make up excuses saying that a family member is gonna move there. Meanwhile, they renovate the unit and rent it out to someone local. I understand them, wanting to move up the price of long-term tendencies, but honestly, if they had more willingness to rent to people who can actually pay the rent and need a house and it would be good tenants instead of simply looking at someone’s bank account, maybe they would be able to make better choices and have better tenants that actually actually paid. Well, Ford is building homes for middle income and above thinking that they are “affordable homes“ for people to buy… The people below low income and disability in the elderly are falling by the wayside and have been for the past six or seven years. No one’s paying attention to them, and the homelessness is rampantly and rapidly increasing Since the pandemic began. If this stop, everyone middle income is gonna be homeless. The only reason why he’s appeasing all these developers and builders, is because he wants to line their pockets because they’re the ones that voted him in and paid for his campaign. That’s literally it. All Ford is, is a puppet.

But also, if the NDP and liberals don’t start throwing together, most importantly, it’s why Ford keeps winning and getting in. Breaking the bitter hate Ontario has against the liberal party that the PC party has been stirring for the past six or seven years, has to stop. The previous liberal leadership is not gonna be the next liberal leadership in the province. Same for the NDP. But if the two out of three parties do not throw together militantly against the BC party, Ontario was paying worse than it already is. Pro healthcare, and under funding education, as well as having everyone below middle income fall to the wayside? That’s not sustainable. He’s acting like a mini Trump and people that used to vote for him, that didn’t in the last election, stupidly chose not to vote at all. That and the people that didn’t vote or never vote in the provincial elections. Money from the campaigns needs to go into promoting voting. And doing it online, where everyone is, not on commercials. Only boomers and older Still have cable.