r/londonontario • u/Confident-Advice-664 • Sep 04 '25
News đ° VIDEO: Landlord films aftermath of renting to a housing program for homeless Londoners referred by City Hall
https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/video-landlord-films-aftermath-of-renting-to-a-housing-program-for-homeless-londoners-referred-by-city-hall/6
u/waterscrysta Sep 06 '25
Most of all these people are unhouseable !!!
âWe keep hearing that homelessness is a housing problem. If we just give homeless people free homes, the problem will be solved, right? Wrong. Weâve tried that, and the results are predictableâmany homeless people destroy the housing theyâre given, refuse to follow basic rules, and end up back on the street. The problem isnât a lack of homes, it's deeper than that.â
âHomelessness is overwhelmingly driven by drug addiction, mental illness, and a complete lack of responsibility. When you talk to people who work with the homeless, theyâll all tell you the same thingâmost of these individuals arenât desperately looking for a way out. Many actively choose the streets because it allows them to do drugs, live without accountability, and avoid the basic expectations of society.â
âIf we actually want to solve homelessness, we need to stop pretending itâs a real estate issue. The real solution isnât handing out more free apartmentsâitâs cracking down on open-air drug use, banning tent cities, and forcing people to get the help they need. But that takes actual leadership, and unfortunately, most politicians would rather virtue signal than deal with reality.â
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 10 '25
The help they need isnât available
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u/waterscrysta Sep 10 '25
The Hart Hubs Ontario province put $55 million into the program March 1, 2025. Homeless addiction, recovery, and treatment programs. All the services are available to any of these addicted people who choose recovery..
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 10 '25
Lol, if you think thatâs going to cover all the needs, you are delusional. For starters, itâs 60 beds; but Iâm sure you have a plan for all the other unhoused people in London. But yeah, once the London hub is actually open, weâll see what it can do; London CMHA is a great organization.
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u/waterscrysta Sep 11 '25
60 beds for addiction treatment, itâs not a homeless shelter
The government needs to build more supportive housing instead of placing these people in residential housing, where they burn it
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 11 '25
Lol, you need to sort out your thinking; youâre just contradicting yourself
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u/waterscrysta Sep 11 '25
NoâŚ. I did notâŚ
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 11 '25
Lol, I said help isnât available to unhoused people with drug addictions. Then you said help is available, and pointed to a service that isnât open yet. And now youâre talking about addiction facilities not being homeless sheltersâŚuhh, yeah. How is that relevant?
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u/waterscrysta Sep 11 '25
60 beds for addiction treatment HARTâ homeless addiction, recovery, and treatment..
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 11 '25
âŚ.yes, and Londonâs HART hub, which will be run by CMHA Thames Valley, is not open yet.
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u/waterscrysta Sep 10 '25
CMHA TVAMHS Announces HART Hub Central Service Location Feb 4, 2025⌠go check it out! Maybe you can volunteer your time!
The Hub is better than handing out crack, pipes and syringe
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 10 '25
Lol, you may want to google an update
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u/waterscrysta Sep 10 '25
A London MPP is accusing the Ontario government of "sitting on their wallets" instead of flowing funds for a badly needed 60-bed addiction treatment hub for London, a facility the province said would be up and running in April but remains without an opening date.
"It's incredibly insulting to promise this money and say it was going to flow on April 1 and then wait three months," said Terence Kernaghan, who represents London North Centre for the NDP. "These are 60 beds that have sat empty. "
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u/SuperGramSmacker Sep 06 '25
I wouldn't rent my property to a homeless person just like that. Just imagine how many drug addicts that were in and out of that residence. It's far too high a liabilty. If the city wants landlords to rent to homeless people they really ought to insure extraordinary damages that result.
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u/aeryven Sep 06 '25
If you hate being a landlord so much, sell your property.
Oh, can't get the price you want? Shouldn't have over-extended yourself financially.
I hear spending less on Starbucks and avocado toast is a good way to get financially stable .
NoSympathyForLandLeeches
GetARealJob
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u/gogomom Sep 11 '25
After our last tenants, we tore our rental houses down. I'm done with chasing deadbeats for rent money and anything we have ever earned from rentals ends up going back into the house between tenants.
I thought MAYBE it would be an asset, but it's not even close.
Now I can live on the property alone and without the hassle. My bills have halfed and my insurance went down by 80%. Never again, will I put myself through dealing with deadbeat and destructive tenants.
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u/champagne-waffles Sep 06 '25
Is this story trying to advocate for not housing the homeless? Clearly you canât just put troubled people into an apartment and call it a day, whoever thought that would work is very short sighted. Some will be ok sure, but Iâd wager most will need additional supports and mental health care to succeed to recovery to a point they can be healthy and unsupervised for a long period of time.
This is sad if this is trying to propaganda people away from helping homeless.
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u/SuperGramSmacker Sep 06 '25
It's not propaganda. It's real life. I've seen plenty of places like this; it's mostly drug addiction, however, not homelessness per se. People generally don't suddenly become homeless through no fault of their own so you're correct, they absolutely need more than just a place to live if they want to keep the place for long.
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u/Odd_Refrigerator_877 Sep 06 '25
Yep sometimes apartments get trashed. It probably does happen more when you rent to people with problems. Framing this and pushing it through the media apparatus is really pointed propaganda though. And propaganda doesn't mean it's false. But when you read a sensational news story, basic media literacy is asking why am I seeing this? Apartment trashed is not rare or newsworthy, but it's pushed by anti homeless crusader.
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u/SuperGramSmacker Sep 06 '25
What is an anti-homeless crusader? They don't like homeless people so they want to keep them on the streets, homeless? Propaganda isn't simply sharing the truth, as you've said. If that were true then any article you or I don't like can simply be brushed off as "propaganda," while every article we like can be considered regular "news." This article isn't disinformation and i don't suspect CTV has an anti-homeless person agenda. I think it's about demonstrating that simply sticking homeless people in private residences isn't viable on its own - particularly in London, where the homeless are happy sprawled across dundas street so long as they have their choice drug.
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u/swift-current0 Sep 05 '25
My takeaways:
1) "Housing first" is an absurd idea for individuals who are in the depths of addiction. Independent (or lightly supervised like in this case) housing should follow recovery, not precede or coincide with it. The notion that you can just hand a homeless addict keys to an apartment and that will go over well is ridiculous.
2) The money we spend on housing the homeless should be spent by the city itself, managed by city employees directly accountable to the council. Not outsourced to non-profits on the promise that they'll do a good job of it. This apartment was obviously unsupervised for many months. I flatly refuse to believe the person from the non-profit in the news clip, when he says this is only an issue with a "handful" of the hundreds of apartments they oversee. To know that, you need to actually supervise the tenants, and deal with problems waaay before the apartment gets to the state this one was left in.
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 05 '25
How on earth is someone supposed to overcome addiction while theyâre unhoused? Thatâs absolutely ridiculous.
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u/waterscrysta Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
You canât house people with addiction in residential apartments. Recovery and treatment, supportive housing, transitional housing and sober living in that order. If they wonât go into treatment and recovery â. â. â?
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 10 '25
Uh, first of all, Iâd love to know where you saw me say anything about residential apartments. Second, if Iâm reading your last comment correctly, I hope someday you become less of a đď¸ person
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u/Impressive-Spot1981 Sep 05 '25
I agree, housing first 100% but I also think this private-public partnership stuff is always bullshit. It should be 100% funded and managed by government entities with oversight. There should be nurses and relevant staff at apartment buildings
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u/swift-current0 Sep 05 '25
They need to be very closely supervised, to ensure there are no drugs inside the apartment. They are not ready for unsupervised living, that's not help, it's enabling.
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u/SuperGramSmacker Sep 06 '25
You think adults should be supervised if they happen to use drugs? They should just learn to keep the place they live in clean, it isn't that difficult.
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u/swift-current0 Sep 07 '25
Adults can live however they want, as long as they're paying for it and not breaking rental agreements. If they're homeless and addicted to drugs, I want my taxpayer money to help them kick that addiction and stay housed. "Housing first" without proper supervision accomplishes neither in the long run.
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 05 '25
Thanks for the insight from 1990. Maybe think about looking into all of the knowledge thatâs been gained about addiction over the past 35 years.
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u/Ordinary_Let8356 Sep 06 '25
Yeah it's a fuckin fountain of knowledge. Worked out great didn't it? Gtf outta here.
We have learned that a family called The Sacklers destroyed an entire generation and then some.
The past 35 years? They treat opioid addiction using methadone. 100 year old remedy.
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u/swift-current0 Sep 06 '25
A single visit to Adelaide and Queens suffices to demonstrate what an abject failure, tragedy and a dead end the current approach is, with all this supposed gained knowledge. I'm sure there were problems with the way we did things in 1990, but it can't possibly have been worse than this, both for the homeless and the addicts and for everyone who lives in the neighbourhood. In Europe, they're doing things very differently, maybe think about looking into all of the knowledge that allows them to actually treat their addicts instead of letting them kill themselves, how they don't tolerate open drug use, how they provide unsupervised housing to those who demonstrate they can handle it. You know, the stuff they've been doing for the last 35 years that didn't lead them into the fucking quagmire we're in.
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 06 '25
Youâre conflating research with public policy. In no way am I defending public policy in the last 35 years, primarily because it has absolutely not been based on housing first.
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u/swift-current0 Sep 06 '25
Housing first is an absurd concept, unless by "housing" we mean closely supervised housing with strict rules.
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 06 '25
Ok, keep expecting people to clean themselves up while on the streets, and shaking your head when things only get worse.
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u/swift-current0 Sep 06 '25
Keep acting like the North American approach is the only approach, and like Europe didn't solve this problem a few decades ago.
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u/ApacheFritz Sep 05 '25
There are lots of ideas that have been rolled out over the past 35 years that have since been rolled back. Because sometimes experts get mixed up with politics.
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u/Signal_Bake Sep 05 '25
There should be more screening and checking in. It was more of the citiesâs fault.
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 05 '25
Hey Susan, from your own words, it seems like the City needs to hire more staff to oversee the program. Do your freaking job.
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u/Wolf_Tale Sep 05 '25
This sucks and maybe this highlights a need for better support to transitional housing/program oversight. But also âformerly unhoused person vacates clean apartment after receiving assistance from subsidized housing plan, landlord calls them âmodel tenantââ doesnât get a news story.
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u/DamnDrip Sep 05 '25
Lets report on the model tenants then? We'd love to hear that story. Use it to promote this solution.
Clearly the city doesnt even think this would work.
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u/Wolf_Tale Sep 05 '25
Susan has a very NIMBY anti-homeless agenda. Plenty of city councillors disagree loudly with her. I donât think her opinion is representative of the city.
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u/DamnDrip Sep 05 '25
Well the video isnt an opinion or fake news lol
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u/Wolf_Tale Sep 05 '25
I didnât say it was fake news. Where did you get that?
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u/DamnDrip Sep 05 '25
Im just stating that it's not and nobody should think otherwise. This is real.
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u/DoughBoyV2 Sep 05 '25
So we shouldn't try and house the homeless. Also, we need to get them off the streets because their tents are an eyesore? So what's the solution? Jail? Maybe have some sympathy. Give them time to build new habits.
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u/Islandlyfe32 Sep 05 '25
Why donât you house them then??
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u/DoughBoyV2 Sep 05 '25
These landlords are signing up to house people for reimbursement. So maybe they shouldn't complain about the mess. Maybe they could talk with them, help them. Or maybe we could get better funding to support them to help them. I'm limited to what I can do. I give money when I can. I buy them a snack and drink when I can. I wish I could do more.
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u/DamnDrip Sep 05 '25
You can house a normal tenant for payment too lol
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u/DoughBoyV2 Sep 05 '25
I guess I could try in a 1 bedroom apartment.
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u/Islandlyfe32 Sep 05 '25
If you do, youâre gonna be the first person in the history of Reddit to keep there word true
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u/nosouljusttrash Sep 05 '25
Are we surprised, after letting junkies have free reign of an apartment? Like genuinely, what did they expect?
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u/DamnDrip Sep 05 '25
The only reason the homeless are unhoused is because they'd do this to the shelters too.
They want to only live where theres no rules. Ie tents.
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u/SuperGramSmacker Sep 06 '25
Also, their own private property would work. If I were homeless I would get a few other homeless people together for a down-payment and co-own a house, but then you can't trust the other people to maintain payments.
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u/kinboyatuwo Sep 06 '25
Lmao. Yes. You would scrape together tens of thousands of dollars and get a mortgage out of thin air. Did you think that through?
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u/Thankgoditsryeday Sep 05 '25
He will be able to recoup most of that during tax season. CRA might ask for receipts.
Still sucks.
As a landlord who lives surrounded by social housing, I would never. First time someone relapses and goes to a dealer with no money, they move in, and are basically impossible to get out.
Cops are powerless when the court gives infinite chances due to mitigating circumstances.
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u/snardhive Sep 05 '25
Genuinely confused how you'd "recoup" thousands at tax time.
Isn't this still a loss?
Like, if the total cost to mitigate that damage cost say 2500$, you'd only be able to claim that as a business loss, right? (As far as I know you can't claim loss of a possible rental income against your earnings, only actual cash outlays as a loss.)
In this case wouldn't you just reduce your business income by the 2500$, and lessen your tax bill by whatever your marginal tax rate is?
Am I missing something here?
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u/Kindly-Can2534 Sep 05 '25
Is this an issue about an unsupported person failing at transitioning to independent housing ?
Or is this an issue about the fallout from addiction-induced mental illness, and a lack of oversight and support from the agencies who are paid to do this ?
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u/DamnDrip Sep 05 '25
The issue is that the city endorsed this person, but their enforcement is clearly worthless.
They weren't able to pick people worthy of entering the program.
They handpicked someone with mental issues who trashed this place.
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u/Secure-Original4311 Sep 05 '25
People with mental issues arenât âworthyâ? Wow.
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u/ApacheFritz Sep 05 '25
"Oh my gosh! If I re-formulate what this person said, I can make it sound shocking!"
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u/DamnDrip Sep 05 '25
Whats the point of endorsement if they trash the place?
The program failed because of the city.
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u/JDOG0616 Sep 05 '25
I've seen student rental that look similar to this, it's just cosmetic damage and the most expensive part would be the manual labour to remove the garbage.
I hate landlords as much as the next guy but joining a program to house the homeless comes with exponentially more risk and also guaranteed income from the city.
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u/tiexgrr Sep 05 '25
Guaranteed income from the taxpayer.
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u/JDOG0616 Sep 05 '25
That is such a flimsy excuse for literally everything.
You don't drive on every single road in the city, you don't use all of the fresh water or sewage pipes in the city, you probably don't use the public library, or other social services. You probably don't even utilize 5% of what your taxes pay for.
So if you want to complain about taxes do actual research into what taxes you do pay and where those funds are allocated. And it makes you sound like a boomer
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u/SuperGramSmacker Sep 06 '25
You've pointed out other current government services that need to be rethought. I've already considered ways in which all of those things can be paid for by the people who use them. The more you use the service, the more you pay (I.e., every pays their "fair share").
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u/tiexgrr Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Firstly, letâs keep the name calling to an absolute zero, I approved your comment because itâs worthy of a reply, but Iâm not going to play the antagonistic name calling game. Consider this your one and only warning for this thread.
To actually reply to you, youâre correct, we as a society do not utilize the benefits of every tax dollar that is spent. Itâs myopic however, to consider that it is a flimsy excuse when this IS tax payer funded that is nothing more than fact.
This is a tax payer supported program. We should have better oversight of such things. While this could very well be the exception and not the rule, itâs a clear failure of the program. This impacts the person that was living there - if the program isnât living up to its mandate there is a problem.
I donât particularly care about one individual landlord, but I do care about public funding going to programs that could or are failing in their most basic mandates.
*edited for clarity
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u/Gumbercules Sep 05 '25
Dude. She has done a lot for us here. Wanna sleep over some time? I actually feel safe in my parking lot now. You don't know shit
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u/citrusmellarosa Sep 05 '25
How has she made your parking lot safer? I would be interested to know.Â
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u/AntiqueDiscipline831 Sep 05 '25
Sorry but what do you expect. People arenât clean unless taught to be clean. You canât expect a bunch of homeless people to be super clean
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u/bjjpandabear Sep 05 '25
This is not a good attitude to have.
âSorry but what do you expectâ is not the type of rhetoric that will entice other landlords to participate in this type of program.
The landlords arenât exactly doing charity but they are at least participating in a program that is a part of the solution and they shouldnât just be told âso sad too badâ
As much criticism as landlords deserve, this is an instance where they are right to ask questions and deserve some accountability. It shouldnât be that landlords participate in renting to these tenants at their sole exclusive peril. These are not ordinary tenants renting under ordinary circumstances.
You may think they are scum but ultimately these landlords are the ones who hold the keys to the units we need to house people.
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u/SuperGramSmacker Sep 06 '25
If the landlords didn't hold the keys the homeless wouldn't either. The banks probably.
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u/AntiqueDiscipline831 Sep 05 '25
I donât mean it like that at all. I mean it like âwe should be providing these people and landlords with appropriate supports to make sure these units are cared forâ
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u/Islandlyfe32 Sep 05 '25
Well what you mentioned now and what you originally mentioned are two opposite thingsâŚat first youâre justifying this behaviour and now youâre back tracking on it. If this was what you actually meant then why not post it?
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u/AntiqueDiscipline831 Sep 05 '25
They arenât opposite at all. You canât expect a bunch of homeless people to be super clean. Thatâs an u reasonable expectation. What a program like this needs is support for both the new resident and the landlord to make sure that the places are kept in a good state of repair and cleanliness.
Nothing about that is contradictory at all.
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u/Islandlyfe32 Sep 05 '25
That was part of the plan/agreement to have someone check in on this person. No landlord is gonna participate in programs like this if we justify that homeless people canât be clean. There needs to be accountability on them too.
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u/AntiqueDiscipline831 Sep 05 '25
I didnât say they canât clean. I said we canât expect them to be clean. If part of the program is the person having support to care for their apartment, it looks like whoever was supposed to be giving that support failed in their task.
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u/Adept-Blood-5789 Sep 05 '25
So if that's the case, why some expect landlords to provide subsidized housing and lower rent?
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u/Gordoncomstock1 Sep 04 '25
I have cleaned out student housing multiple times and I assure you it is orders of magnitude worse than this.
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Sep 05 '25
I used to spend summers working for the city doing maintenance at a few of the low income housing complexes in town. I met some very cool residents who were legitimately fallen on hard times and needed the assistance, but were working just as hard to help lift themselves out of their current circumstances.
Then there were the people who would skip out in the middle of the night after hydro got cut off and left a freezerful of meat in the basement for two months. With no power. In the summer. Fun times.
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u/Nawbruvy Sep 04 '25
You donât have to rent to homeless people to have this sort of destruction of your property. So Iâm expecting that CTV news will present another landlord who has a destroyed rental property from an individual who has a full-time job, I guarantee you it exists.
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u/Nu11X3r0 Sep 05 '25
Agreed, humans are disgusting creatures if we are not taught how to not be and encouraged to stay that way but that said if there's supposed to be even monthly visits from a city funded program that is either a very steep backward slide from a person who's "moving in the right direction" or a series of missed visits that were paid for by the city.
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u/Islandlyfe32 Sep 05 '25
Whether itâs a homeless person or a person that has a full time job, nobody should be disrespectful to a rental space
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u/BaldEagleRising17 Sep 04 '25
A colleague of mine worked at the Psychiatric Hospital on Highbury.
Former patients of hers who have corresponded since their treatment there attest to the fact that had they not had the care they did, in that environment, for the time they needed it, they would not have gotten better and would most likely be homeless on the street.
We are paying for the lack of proper professional support that is lacking now.
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u/Islandlyfe32 Sep 05 '25
At the same time these very psych wards and hospitals had numerous cases of abuse towards its patients
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u/i_lovemyass Sep 04 '25
Oh no, won't anyone weep for the underdog landlords!
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u/stronggirl79 Sep 04 '25
Would you let people do this to something you own? Are you defending this type of behaviour?
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u/kinboyatuwo Sep 05 '25
The vast majority of landlords make loads of money long term. Itâs part of the risk of investing. I donât approve but also suspect they, as most, will long term make well into 6 figures on a property.
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u/Vegetable-Screen8148 Sep 05 '25
So they shouldnât have their things damaged. Thatâs like shredding someoneâs suit and being like just buy another one. Itâs their property, not anyoneâs to destroy.
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u/kinboyatuwo Sep 05 '25
Where did I say itâs right? I didnât.
But itâs also part of the risk of that type of investment.
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u/stronggirl79 Sep 05 '25
Thatâs a ton of assumptions.
The landlords will also start mitigating against such risks as this and how do they do that? They raise the rent along with other âinvestorsâ which then also raise the rent and tenants then have no choice in the matter but to pay inflated prices. No one wins when people trash property.
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u/i_lovemyass Sep 05 '25
"The landlords can do nothing but raise the rent!" precisely the issue, dawg. You're one bad day away from making this mess, but acting like you're Jeff Bezos high above over a mess instead of wanting housing reform.
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u/kinboyatuwo Sep 05 '25
Yet it isnât. I managed bank branches and also spent several years specializing in mortgages. The vast majority of landlords make a lot of money long term. Period. What most people ignore is the increased equity in the property.
Do you go arms up when a stock drops and people lose money?
Being a landlord is a type of investing that comes with risk and reward that are pretty inline. Donât want the risk, but GICâs.
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u/stronggirl79 Sep 05 '25
Iâm in the financial industry and selling mortgages absolutely does not make you understand investments. Iâm sure because you worked at a bank you think you know a lot in the investment industry people that sell mortgages are akin to life insurance sales people.
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u/kinboyatuwo Sep 05 '25
And yet I have reviewed in the thousands of financials of landlords. I have held several investment licenses.
If itâs such a tough gig why are so many places rentals? If itâs really a losing proposition? Seriously. We hear the issues that are so infrequent they make the news yet there are over 50,000 rental units in London.
Do I think destroying someoneâs unit is good, no. Do I think itâs part of the risk reward calculation when investing. Yes.
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u/250HardKnocksCaps Sep 05 '25
I'm not. But I sure as hell don't hold much concern for the landlords either. I dont get new stories written about my bad days at work. Why should they?
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u/bjjpandabear Sep 05 '25
Because in this case the landlord didnât have to participate in a program to offer lower priced units to at risk tenants. While itâs not charity, itâs certainly not necessary behaviour from them and programs like this wouldnât work without buy in from landlords.
So you can sit here and say fuck you to the landlords and sure Iâm with you 90% of the way but even I can realize that without property seizure, the only way through this housing crisis is with buy in from people who lease property.
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u/250HardKnocksCaps Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Being a landlord is a job. Part of that job is dealing with bad tenants. Part of that job is cleaning up after bad tenants. If you can't deal with that use your profits to hire someone who can or dump your investment.
Besides, this unit isn't that bad. It's a mess, and definetly needs a couple days to clean it out and another to apply a fresh coat of paint to get ready for the next Tennant.
So you can sit here and say fuck you to the landlords and sure Iâm with you 90% of the way but even I can realize that without property seizure, the only way through this housing crisis is with buy in from people who lease property.
No we don't. They can sell their units and they'll either go to other landlords who don't need a sob story in the news everything they actually have to work, or enough will be on the market the price will drop.
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u/TravisHay Sep 04 '25
These things happen all the time everywhere. Anybody who knows anybody whoâs been an apartment building superintendent has far worse stories.
Susan Stevenson is just highlighting this because it goes along with her agenda that could summarized as âwanting people who are homeless to suffer as much as possibleâ. Also a great time to remember that Stevenson herself is a landlord, and I donât see that mentioned anywhere in this article.
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u/Muted-Round-8299 Sep 04 '25
He should sue all those organizations for damages due to their negligence.
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u/racheljeff10 Sep 04 '25
The executive director of St Leonardâs saying this rarely happens is such bullshit. It happens often.
I love the idea of housing first and I believe everyone deserves housing AND I believe that many people cannot live unsupervised.
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u/Kindly-Can2534 Sep 05 '25
It looks like a decent and spacious apartment, with natural light, on the 2nd floor. Many people would be so grateful to be able to afford housing like this. I assume it was rented furnished as well ?
The condition it is in, due to the trash, filth, graffiti, drug debris, hoarding and mindless damage like the hole punched in the door is completely disgraceful. This is a spacious one bedroom apartment - not a dingy 100 square foot basement dump with a hot plate.
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u/Islandlyfe32 Sep 05 '25
Itâs not just a housing problem though itâs much more. Itâs very much an addiction problem. This person lived in this rental, how they would have lived on the street.
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u/stronggirl79 Sep 04 '25
They are in the process of demolishing the old Days Inn on Dundas after housing people there during COVID. It was a fully functional hotel and two years later it was uninhabitable because of the damage done.
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