Residents at downtown Winnipeg seniors home fear rent increase with sale to private buyer
, which owns and operates Lions Place, tells Global News the charity has been covering costs at the building since a long-term government funding agreement ended in 2018.He said a caveat in the agreement with the potential new owners will see Lions continue to pay for a tenant resource coordinator at the building, if it is sold, but with the building set to incur millions in renovation costs, Verrier said the charity ultimately has decided it has to cut its losses.
“Which means they’ve benefited from low-rental housing for years on the goodwill of the Lions Housing Centres.” “We think this is a real moment of truth for this provincial government,” said Tom Simms, whose 93-year-old mother has lived at Lions Place for 25 years. Manitoba Families Minister, Rochelle Squires, says the government has been working behind the scenes “to ensure that those seniors living at Lions Place will not experience a rent increase and will not be put out of their housing.
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