“I don’t want to eat anymore. I just want to pass as soon as possible,” said Bouchard. “I’m not going to do that, but that’s the way I feel.”
The 91 year old lady really just said “guess I’ll die” when told her rent was going from $2,400 per month to $3,400
Why was her rent 2400 in the first place?
It’s a retirement residence, and from their site it looks like housekeeping and meals are included in the price. They also have packages including nursing care which are much more expensive. The article says one lady was paying $4,700 a month and is now expected to pay $7,000.
The reason they can jack the price up is because they’re claiming the fee increases are from the housekeeping, meals, staff, etc. Not the actual rent, which has increases limited by law.
This is pretty crazy. If they are making those claims they should prove in court that there was a proportional increase (60% salary increase, 60% increase in supply cost)
Now Lemmy has to decide, who do we hate more? Boomers or landlords?
Why not both? As a boomer myself (b. 1956), I’m confidently overconfident in saying that, at 91, she’s actually too old to be a boomer. Less confidently, she missed being a boomer by about 10 years.
Well, what does the lease actually say? If it says the discounts were temporary marketing gimmicks, then that’s what they are. If it doesn’t say that, then that’s what they are not.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bouchard is one of three tenants of an Alavida Lifestyles retirement residence who say their monthly fees are increasing by hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars through what some experts describe as concerning legal loophole.
Alavida runs four seniors’ residences across Ottawa and has been offering tenants like Bouchard what it describes as “marketing discounts,” which are being scaled back.
But the tenants CBC spoke to all said they were never told the discounts were temporary until recently and would not have moved into homes they would eventually be unable to afford had they been properly informed in the first place.
Five years ago, Bouchard moved into her apartment at Ravines Seniors’ Suites and Retirement Residence, a private home by Alavida Lifestyles.
Some residents feel there’s little choice but to move, even with a lack of affordable options, with tens of thousands of people on the wait list for publicly funded long-term care homes in the province.
In this case, Majid said it’s unclear if the discount was applied to a resident’s rent or the retirement home’s service package, which has no limited cost increase under the Residential Tenancies Act.
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