Rising housing costs on the minds of voters and parties in northern Ontario
CBC
Once upon a time, Kim Lediett owned a four-bedroom house with a big backyard.
That was just a few years ago.
The 42-year-old mother of three has been renting in North Bay, bouncing from place to place, being forced to live in a hotel for a month and watching the rental rates climb higher and higher.
"It's gotten worse," she says.
"Each time I would apply, they'd say 'I've had 30 people looking' and the next one 'I've had 60 people looking' and the next one 'Oh wow, you're like the 100th applicant.'"
Lediett, who just recently sold her share of a small business, says she blew through $30,000 in savings in the past year paying her rent.
"When you're paying rent at $2,200 dollars a month you're funding someone else's retirement fund," she says.
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