Rant regarding Community Housing Tenants

[pintobean]

Yesterday night the 11:30pm news did a story about an old man who died in a fire at his Community Housing Complex in Toronto. The news reporter was interviewing other tenants of the complex and asking them whether they felt safe in the building since it had no sprinklers - all of them said that they felt unsafe and wanted the Municipal or Provincial government to force the Community Housing Authority to install sprinklers.

One of the people who was interviewed appeared on camera holding a pet dog, and this really upset me...how on earth can someone who needs to live in subsidized housing still afford to keep and care for a pet dog? I mean this person supposedly can't afford to pay the market rate for an apartment, but somehow they have enough money to buy dog food and pay for vaccines and rabies shots and veterinary treatment? This makes no sense to me. I'd love to have a pet dog, but I know that my lifestyle can't afford it right now. It really makes me angry to see someone who is being supported by my tax dollars spending their money on something like a pet dog.

I say that if someone has so little money that they need to live in subsidized housing, then they should be forced to spend whatever money they do have on necessities, and not luxuries like a pet dog.

Comments?

[AmberMoon]

I half agree with you but the cost to feed a animal is minimual. I can feed my 2 cats on about $20 a month roughly and since they are indoor cats they usually need no medical attention. Its possible he got the pet already with its shots and only needs to feed the animal?

Its the ones who have a beer in their hand or a marijuana's smell on them and asking for a helping hand that get me. How can they afford a 12pk a day or even a bag of pot. ( ps Im not against drinking or smoking if you can afford it )

[UrbanPoet]

I half agree with you but the cost to feed a animal is minimual. I can feed my 2 cats on about $20 a month roughly and since they are indoor cats they usually need no medical attention. Its possible he got the pet already with its shots and only needs to feed the animal?

Its the ones who have a beer in their hand or a marijuana's smell on them and asking for a helping hand that get me. How can they afford a 12pk a day or even a bag of pot. ( ps Im not against drinking or smoking if you can afford it )

maybe its lakerport buck a beer... I alway ssee people on their front porch near regent park sipping back lakeports.

maybe to them... their $1/day coffee is a $1 beer O_O

anyways...
My beef is that when people talk about poorer people they assume that they shouldnt be allowed any luxury in life. Even people with less money deserve other things in life besides mere neccessity to improve their quality of life...

[ephemera]

Having a pet keeps these people's lives together. It doesn't cost that much anyhow. And too many people are taking advantage of ontario housing as it is when there are truly poor families that really need housing.

[AmberMoon]

maybe its lakerport buck a beer... I alway ssee people on their front porch near regent park sipping back lakeports.

maybe to them... their $1/day coffee is a $1 beer O_O

anyways...
My beef is that when people talk about poorer people they assume that they shouldnt be allowed any luxury in life. Even people with less money deserve other things in life besides mere neccessity to improve their quality of life...

Granted its only a buck and Yes i 100% agree they shouldn't live a poverty ridden life with no luxury's just because they cant afford the finer things in life but Im talking about the ones who have say 10 of those $1 beers a day and wonder why they don't have a pot to piss in. I have been there before and know very well what living at a poverty level is like and I can tell you that I did not have luxery's because having them would have kept me in poverty for a very long time. Any extra $$ I could spare was saved for emergencys or savings to allow me to get back on my feet.

One of my husbands family members is in the sub housing and gets xxx amount of money a month to live on, he dosen't work nor drink or drugs but he is very much the type that chooses not to work and will do anything not too. He even went so far as to gain weight on purpose to get more $$. On average he has $20 a month spare after paying his bills from what they give him. This type of person is the type I have no patience for, and he is not alone since a good chunk are similar.

[Kuurgen]

Yesterday night the 11:30pm news did a story about an old man who died in a fire at his Community Housing Complex in Toronto. The news reporter was interviewing other tenants of the complex and asking them whether they felt safe in the building since it had no sprinklers - all of them said that they felt unsafe and wanted the Municipal or Provincial government to force the Community Housing Authority to install sprinklers.

One of the people who was interviewed appeared on camera holding a pet dog, and this really upset me...how on earth can someone who needs to live in subsidized housing still afford to keep and care for a pet dog? I mean this person supposedly can't afford to pay the market rate for an apartment, but somehow they have enough money to buy dog food and pay for vaccines and rabies shots and veterinary treatment? This makes no sense to me. I'd love to have a pet dog, but I know that my lifestyle can't afford it right now. It really makes me angry to see someone who is being supported by my tax dollars spending their money on something like a pet dog.

I say that if someone has so little money that they need to live in subsidized housing, then they should be forced to spend whatever money they do have on necessities, and not luxuries like a pet dog.

Comments?

This angers me more:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...34/?hub=Canada

As does this:


http://www.ontariotenants.ca/electri...ts-04a31.phtml


I'm sure these things are costing the taxpayers more.

[Peckerwood]

Such an infuriating story indeed...pets in poor people's homes...horrible.

How come these people aren't spending their money on essentials...like crack and heroine?

[boxingday]

Yesterday night the 11:30pm news did a story about an old man who died in a fire at his Community Housing Complex in Toronto. The news reporter was interviewing other tenants of the complex and asking them whether they felt safe in the building since it had no sprinklers - all of them said that they felt unsafe and wanted the Municipal or Provincial government to force the Community Housing Authority to install sprinklers.

One of the people who was interviewed appeared on camera holding a pet dog, and this really upset me...how on earth can someone who needs to live in subsidized housing still afford to keep and care for a pet dog? I mean this person supposedly can't afford to pay the market rate for an apartment, but somehow they have enough money to buy dog food and pay for vaccines and rabies shots and veterinary treatment? This makes no sense to me. I'd love to have a pet dog, but I know that my lifestyle can't afford it right now. It really makes me angry to see someone who is being supported by my tax dollars spending their money on something like a pet dog.

I say that if someone has so little money that they need to live in subsidized housing, then they should be forced to spend whatever money they do have on necessities, and not luxuries like a pet dog.

Comments?

So drinking and smoking is fine.

[naxos98]

Unfortunately, the system as it is currently set up does not create the incentive to work. People who are in these situations typically will get only minimum wage jobs. If they work too many hours, they get their benefits cut. So there decision is do they want to work many hours only to make a little bit more, or do nothing and collect the gov't cheques. When you get money from the government, who wouldn't want to that.

Government assistance should be to help people get on their feet and become productive members of society. But unfortunately there are many that just freeload off the system.

Hard work and delayed gratification are necessary to get your self out of poverty. Not everyone has those personal qualities, so that is why you see people make it out of poverty to become very successful, while others never go anywhere.

[ji2o0k]

This angers me more:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...34/?hub=Canada

As does this:
http://www.ontariotenants.ca/electri...ts-04a31.phtml
I'm sure these things are costing the taxpayers more.

man................fricking government is made up of a bunch of crooks. How much money has been wasted/stolen from all the scandals and freebies that they get?

Such a joke. You wonder why people are taxed so much in Canada. I am considering a career change, how does one become an MP?

[alkaseltzer01]

all of them said that they felt unsafe and wanted the Municipal or Provincial government to force the Community Housing Authority to install sprinklers.


Comments?

What dumbasses. They are going to come around and complain about the rent hike because the cost of installing sprinklers would be passed down to them.

[Spray]

I went for a weekend doing habitat for humanity stuff at the lakeshore by cherry st, where the "Tent city" was.

These idiots that had a house built for them put a BBQ inside it and ended up burning the whole thing down. While we cleaned up the debris they just sat there drinking.

I'm sure theres a lot of grateful people that get these subsidized housing, but the other half that have this giant sense of entitlement turned me off to the point where that was my last time helping them.

[CYP3A4]

Well, some of th tenants in community housing are elders, take the victim of that fire for example. They are too poor to live in retirement homes so they have to resort to living in community housings. Pets makes great companions, I don't see anything wrong with that.

maybe its lakerport buck a beer... I alway ssee people on their front porch near regent park sipping back lakeports.

LOL, buck-a-beer and buck-a-pot

[boxingday]

Well, some of th tenants in community housing are elders, take the victim of that fire for example. They are too poor to live in retirement homes so they have to resort to living in community housings. Pets makes great companions, I don't see anything wrong with that.



LOL, buck-a-beer and buck-a-pot

What is sad is people don't know retiremants home can be cheaper then community housing.If they have no more or very little they more or less are charged $50 per month.

[CYP3A4]

What is sad is people don't know retiremants home can be cheaper then community housing.If they have no more or very little they more or less are charged $50 per month.

Its not always about the money. People are living longer. Number of retirement homes is limited. This make long waiting list.