"You're not responsible for what you don't know but once you do know.. you are" - Wynonna Judd
https://warktimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/May-2-Presentation-Town-Council.pdf
"Meantime, council heard from Reginald Beal, a father of three young children, a lifelong Sackville resident and full-time worker, who has been looking for housing for the last six months.
“I’ve been told by multiple, different people here in Sackville that they don’t want to rent to families,” he said. “It’s students only.”
He said he’s tried everything, but there’s nothing available." At this link:
Sackville Town Council hears personal stories about housing crisis | (warktimes.com)
Comment published by Bruce with thanks.
"Thanks for covering this issue.. it wasn’t long ago the people of this town were welcoming refugees and providing them with free housing… maybe if Canadians focussed on their own instead of foreigners that are flooding into our nation in record breaking numbers they’d get this problem under control… the current set of politicians have willfully created scarcity by not recognizing how hard it already was for many low income struggling and working class Canadians to secure affordable housing… I don’t mean to pit people against ‘newcomers’ but I would say that part of the reason I got on the local ‘shit list’ was for speaking about this obvious problem in Sackville… I have known for years how kind people are here to ‘incoming foreigners’ while all the time seeing their own struggling and oblivious to helping them… I hope people learn to use discernment on what it means to help your fellow neighbour out…. Its so obvious that there are solutions… stop importing so many newcomers including international students who use this town as an immigration entry point."
The "shit list" referred to involved the do-gooder group at the 'coalition to help refugees'
more here:
The Town's CAO Jamie Burke was also found responsible for many renters losing their homes here and the loss of potential housing units by the Town's Council - so in reality is it a culture of anti-landlords... why? Power hungry.
The late Mr. Gordon Hallet Beal was punished and made an example of for his efforts in trying to provide housing -- this should be addressed but it won't be... we don't need another coalition here but we do need a lot less taxation by N.B. government and the authorities who deem themselves our masters just to get out of the way of people developing property to live in. Abundance should be the natural state, not scarcity. Read:
Additional information on this at the "Town of Sackville" on Youtube Channel with their Special Council Meeting on May 2, 2022 here:
Special Council Meeting - May 2, 2022 - YouTube
Opening their video is a talk by Peter Hess with the Sackville Farmers Market...
Board of Directors - THE SACKVILLE FARMERS' MARKET (sackvillefarmersmarket.ca)
Alice Cotton spoke about housing issues.
"The mother of a young daughter who lives in a three-bedroom home on Squire Street appealed to town council last night for help in solving Sackville’s housing crisis.
Ashley Legere, who works for a non-profit organization finding housing for 185 homeless people in Moncton, says she is now facing homelessness herself.
“As of Saturday, my rental has been sold and I have three months to move out of my home, the only home my daughter has ever known,” she told council.
Legere explained that her rent is $1250 per month including utilities, but that so far, the only comparable housing she can find in Sackville is an unaffordable $2400 monthly with nothing included."
Ashley Legere was involved in the installation of the 'harm reduction' facility in the town... more at her Instagram page:
