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Desperate tenants call on city hall to license every rental


 
LONDON, ONT.
London will consider expanding the requirement to license rental units to include highrises and stacked townhouses.
On Tuesday, several tenants spoke to the Community and Protective Services (CAPS) Committee in support of a political push to crack down on negligent landlords.
A downtown tenant told the committee that the province’s Landlord and Tenant Act falls short of protecting low-income renters.
“We need more ways to hold them (landlords) accountable because it’s a reactionary system where the poor get screwed because we’re either busy working or busy at school,” she said.
Currently, city hall only licenses small-scale landlords requiring fire and building code inspections. ....

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Fears affordable housing increases crime fails to stop new apartments


 
LONDON, ONT.
Resolving London’s housing crisis will require neighbourhoods across the city to accept new infill developments of affordable units.
On Monday, City Hall’s Planning and Environment Committee (PEC) considered three affordable housing projects that would create a total of 147 units within 3 low-rise apartment buildings.
403 Thompson Road (4 storey, 44 units)
122 Baseline Road (4 storeys, 61 units)
345 Sylvan Street (3 storeys, 42 units)
Several residents from the Glen Cairn neighbourhood spoke against the development on Thompson Rd., arguing they already have a disproportionate amount of public housing in their area of the city.
Representing some nearby condominium owners, one woman said, “We are not saying every person in affordable housing is a criminal or unsavoury, however, our personal experiences carry a lot of weight as to the correlation between affordable housing and crime.” ....

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