The two-month notice given the residents of the Cook Street apartment building and Christie Point is utterly unrealistic given Greater Victoria’s 0.6 per cent vacancy rate.
I have a suggestion.
In existing multi-family dwellings, encourage the landlords and developers to give a longer notice of eviction by offering a property-tax reduction for the length of time to be determined by the eviction notice.
A property-tax deduction for a two- or five-year eviction notice would give time for social housing projects and new rental accommodation currently being built to be completed.
We do not want or need our existing homeless population and supports for the homeless to overwhelmed by a tsunami of evicted people.
Kathryn Comerford
Victoria
