Re: Housing Crisis

David Garrow | Dec 15, 2021

In response to the letter by Ken and carol Gorham Housing crisis December 2 2021

Your concerns of a housing crisis in north frontenac are quite true. The reason you’ve offered in your letter is valid as prices are at the highest.

As a stakeholder in the rental business dealing with poor unresponsive township leadership that deliver an unrecoverable tax increases yearly combined with the provincial issued minimum rent increases. Councils inability to deliver an adjusted mill rate to reflect the accelerated property evaluation as assessed my MPAC makes investment in rental property a poor decision.

Although the sale of a rental home affects and displaces the departing tenants it also affects the ability for a new resident to come into the area Sales of rental homes also potentially causes tenants to have relocate to other communities

As this council continually deliver higher user fees cleaning up the “ purge” left by outgoing tenants has become tremendously expensive. Combine these factors and it is far easier to let a rental sit vacant and be sold than provide affordable housing to the residents

After seven years of rule this mayor still has no plan for affordable housing for its residents

What a shame

David Garrow