MPP Rob Flack’s constituency office was the site of a noon-hour rally Tuesday.
About a dozen members of ACORN Canada – an independent national organization of low- and moderate-income people – were on hand to voice opposition to a section of Bill 23, The More Homes Built Faster Act dealing with rental units.
Jordan Smith from the London chapter of ACORN calls Bill 23 devastating for the province.
ACORN wants the province to give more, not less, powers to municipalities so that they can enact and implement rental replacement bylaws and protect existing affordable housing.
Bill 23 will devastate the province’s working class. That’s the warning from ACORN Canada.
Smith stresses, “We need homes that we can afford to live in.”
He adds, “we need a strong solution to the housing crisis, however Bill 23 is not it.”
ACORN Canada has been fighting for affordable and healthy homes for more than 18 years and Smith argues Premier Doug Ford is muddying the water on the definition of affordable housing.
Smith adds we’re not in a lack of housing emergency, it’s an emergency of very specific targetted housing.
Written by Ian McCallum
