First United polled 443 evicted tenants. They revealed the reasons for the evictions, affect on their families, and where they ended up.
to 20 minutes last year, resulting in fewer people abandoning their calls, the ministry’s email said.
“Several respondents reported losing custody of their children because they could no longer provide them with a safe place to live,” the report says. “I was shocked when I got the letter,” said Hill, who is on a fixed pension income. “I’m not against paying rent increases. I just can’t afford 42 per cent.”
He has friends nearby and knows the area well, but he doesn’t think he can find a replacement apartment he can afford locally. Hill is likely facing a move to Mission or Abbotsford where he has close family.More than a quarter of the evicted tenants who responded to the First United survey said they had not found a place to live, leaving some to stay on friends’ couches, in cars, in shelters or on the street.
People of colour and those identifying as LGBTQ+ experienced a much higher rate of informal evictions, which were rarely challenged, the report says. Marsden said evictions and rent increases are typically treated like “natural things” that happened in a tight housing market, but she argues that must stop.Article content
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