Housing co-op ordered to pay damages for failing to enrol woman for subsidies

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B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has ordered a housing co-op to pay $5,000 in damages to a woman who claimed the co-op failed to enrol her for housing subsidies. Roberta Lynn Marshman claimed she had lost $17,560 in subsidies in a case where tribunal vice-chair Eric Regehr cited the co-op’s “unfairly prejudicial actions.”

B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has ordered a housing co-op to pay $5,000 in damages to a woman who claimed the co-op failed to enrol her for housing subsidies. Roberta Lynn Marshman claimed she had lost $17,560 in subsidies in a case where tribunal vice-chair Eric Regehr cited the co-op’s “unfairly prejudicial actions.” She’s a member Victoria’s Lavender Housing Cooperative and asserted Lavender failed to enrol her for a federal program when a new one began in September 2020.

“She did not receive the subsidy until March 1, 2023,” Regehr said in his March 13 decision. Marshman asked for a tribunal order that she be reimbursed in full for the subsidy she should have received between September 2020 and March 2023. At the time she started the dispute, she said she had lost $21,000 in subsidies, but amended that amount to $17,560. Lavender denied any wrongdoing and wanted the claim dismissed. Regehr said both parties agreed the only way Marshman could receive a federal housing subsidy is through the co-o

 

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