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