Dear Editor
The province is giving up two-thirds of its land at Cedar Place, which by all rights should be used to help meet the growing need for future affordable housing. It will move the 90 low-income families from spacious homes with individual backyards and surrounding green space into a five-storey apartment building on less than one-fifth of the space. Everyone likes new, but these renters are giving up a lot, particularly space and privacy. Contrary to what Mr. Corrigan and Mr. Coleman want you to believe, there is not one additional unit of affordable family housing.
Burnaby is ranked worst in Canada by the Canadian Rental Housing Index for housing affordability and accessibility.
Once again, low-income families that rent are getting shafted and displaced, and voters continue to allow this to happen. No one seems to have any trouble with the fact that the developer Ledingham- McAllister donated $69,900 to the B.C. Liberals prior to the last provincial election or $10,000 to the mayor and his party during the municipal election.
Rick McGowan, Burnaby
