Archive 1997-2016
Brian Lyons, a Centretown resident living in rent-geared-to-income housing operated by the Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, saw his rent skyrocket this September by almost 70 per cent — from $85 to $145.
Someone messed up. Whether it was Richard Mahoney, his assistant, or Industry Canada’s Lobbyist Registration Branch is open to debate.
Later this fall, the City of Ottawa is expected to grant landlords sweeping powers to convert rental property into condominiums.Fresh on the heels of an average 16.1per cent property value increase in Somerset ward, it is one more brick in Centretown’s wall of housing woes.
Is the fight to relocate the Gilmour Street parole office over? The activists and parents who have been fighting for a year to move the office away from Elgin Street Public School might be dismayed to learn the answer could very well be yes.