11-21-2018, 11:35 PM
(11-21-2018, 11:18 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-21-2018, 08:47 PM)darts Wrote: How much subsidized housing has been made in the region? Is there any sort of tracker for this? I have heard of a few projects in Cambridge but haven't heard much happening in Kitchener or Waterloo
Kitchener Housing has 730 units, most of them income-geared. I have no idea about Cambridge or Waterloo, though.
https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-service...g-inc.aspx
One of the big issues with housing is how many of these units are destroyed by their tenants and end up being condemned. I've dealt with it before, and this one family (husband and wife and their 7 kids) were on their third rental because they had trashed the other two so bad that it was a massive health risk. You're talking feces on walls, vomit in every corner of the house, holes in the walls, door, and rotting food everywhere. I wasn't sure if I was more surprised that they kept getting a new/fresh units or that Family and Child Services didn't take the kids.
If people were to take care of their places, I'm sure the city/region could probably quadruple the amount of units that they own.