Jeff Burch says spending 60% of income on rent unacceptable
A Niagara NDP MPP is calling on the Ford government to bring back rent controls to address the affordable housing shortage in the region and across the province
Jeff Burch noting “A modest one bedroom in Welland is going for $1400 a month. A basement one-bedroom apartment in Port Colborne is $1300.”
Burch pointing out, the median income in Niagara is just $35,000 a year, which means anyone earning that takes home just over $2,300 a month.
So he says we are asking people to spend 60 percent of their take-home income on a one-bedroom apartment,
Burch calling on the Ford Tories "to take real substantive action to address the soaring cost of living and shortage of affordable places to live and bring back rent control, the rent control this government eliminated just months into its term."
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