shockedcanadian
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Tent encampments are also growing again in Toronto. Decades of overfunding MASSIVE police budgets so that covert kids can ruin others lives and set themselves up nicely in the $1B a year boondoggle. When citizens issues require support, there is no affordable housing with 100,000+ new people a year to house.
Ingrid Burke, 59, could be the poster girl for the housing crisis. Her story is unique but it is just one of thousands in Toronto.
She rents a room in a house in the Beach but for the past two and a half months has been searching for a more suitable studio or junior one-bedroom apartment. She wants something private and comfortable; a place big enough to bake cookies and host her grandchildren.
Burke is so desperate that she has been tacking up posters in the city’s east end advertising her willingness to do caretaking, painting, small repairs and yard work for a landlord willing to accept $1,500 a month.
“I don’t make enough money to afford what people are asking for a one-bedroom apartment. So, I’ve been kind of hoping that I will just meet that one person that is going to be more interested in having a good tenant that will take care of things rather than money,” she said.
A sign of the housing crisis: This grandmother is so desperate for an apartment she’s postering hydro poles
‘If I could just get into housing, subsidized, or rent geared to income, it would be fine,’ she says.
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Ingrid Burke, 59, could be the poster girl for the housing crisis. Her story is unique but it is just one of thousands in Toronto.
She rents a room in a house in the Beach but for the past two and a half months has been searching for a more suitable studio or junior one-bedroom apartment. She wants something private and comfortable; a place big enough to bake cookies and host her grandchildren.
Burke is so desperate that she has been tacking up posters in the city’s east end advertising her willingness to do caretaking, painting, small repairs and yard work for a landlord willing to accept $1,500 a month.
“I don’t make enough money to afford what people are asking for a one-bedroom apartment. So, I’ve been kind of hoping that I will just meet that one person that is going to be more interested in having a good tenant that will take care of things rather than money,” she said.