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prairiedaun Nov. 9th, 2005 06:19 pm)
prairiedaun Nov. 9th, 2005 06:19 pm)I almost forgot the other thing that severely pissed me off today.
Eviction looms for St. Boniface rooming-house tenants
Forty people living at a rooming house in St. Boniface are frustrated and frightened after learning they're facing eviction.
The owner of the building lost a zoning battle with the city, so all of the residents in the building – most with mental-health illnesses or other disabilities – have been ordered out by Dec. 14.
Tenant Richard Solomon doesn't understand why the city is shutting down a place where dozens of vulnerable people feel safe and can manage on their own. Solomon, who has an emotional disorder, pays $340 a month for his room, which is considered one of the better ones of the 67 in the building.
"We're just down on our luck, that's why we're in here," he said. "It's nice and cheap and a very nice place to live in."
Hearing Franco Magnifico saying that it was for the greater good made me want to just punch something. Fucker.
"I haven't seen the exact list of all those tenants, but I suspect it's a transient lot. There may be a core nucleus that live there, but I suspect the rest are rather transient," he said.
"Some of these people are probably have been thrown out of other places, can't find a place to rent. So they're happy where they are and they may have a hard time relocating. But I have to look at the greater good, and I believe this is for the greater good."
*rages* Unless I'm missing a vital piece of information here, this is just fucked up.
Eviction looms for St. Boniface rooming-house tenants
Forty people living at a rooming house in St. Boniface are frustrated and frightened after learning they're facing eviction.
The owner of the building lost a zoning battle with the city, so all of the residents in the building – most with mental-health illnesses or other disabilities – have been ordered out by Dec. 14.
Tenant Richard Solomon doesn't understand why the city is shutting down a place where dozens of vulnerable people feel safe and can manage on their own. Solomon, who has an emotional disorder, pays $340 a month for his room, which is considered one of the better ones of the 67 in the building.
"We're just down on our luck, that's why we're in here," he said. "It's nice and cheap and a very nice place to live in."
Hearing Franco Magnifico saying that it was for the greater good made me want to just punch something. Fucker.
"I haven't seen the exact list of all those tenants, but I suspect it's a transient lot. There may be a core nucleus that live there, but I suspect the rest are rather transient," he said.
"Some of these people are probably have been thrown out of other places, can't find a place to rent. So they're happy where they are and they may have a hard time relocating. But I have to look at the greater good, and I believe this is for the greater good."
*rages* Unless I'm missing a vital piece of information here, this is just fucked up.
