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Originally Posted by Azure
You gotta be kidding me.
I had no clue that was going on.
Subsidizing rent isn't exactly a long-term investment. Again, just a classic example of the province thinking short-term.
Spent at least $100 million of that $114 million on low income housing. Geez.
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Exactly.
There are so many ways they could have spent that money. My dad was paid probably around $50,000 from that program with different tenants, and before the program they had no problem paying their rent.
I guess they saw it as free money, which it was. All they had to do was be late on their rent and then they would get a two weeks notice from the landlord and show it to the government. About 2 weeks later a cheque was in the mail for the full rent.
EDIT: I'm not saying everyone who used that program were scamming them, but it was obvious some were. I understand there were people who actually needed the program but I think that there could have been different ways to go about finding out who needed it and who doesn't.