With few options, Fredericton tenants protest the end of their leases
CBC
Tenants of a Fredericton apartment building recently under new ownership stood on the street Tuesday waving signs to protest the termination of their leases and to call for better protections for tenants.
People in all 17 units at 91 Main Street will have to leave the building by the end of May, and those who have been there less than five years have to be out by the end of March.
Sue Billings has called the building home for more than 15 years.
"I'm just a basket case – just a basket case. We all are," she said.
Billings isn't sure where she will live come June.
"I found a place. It's $1,240 a month, but that's without any utilities. Two bedroom, can't do it. Not going to happen," she said.
Billings is on a pension but still works to make ends meet.
She pays $750 a month now.
Before the notice that her lease would be terminated, there were two separate notices of rent increases, one of $250 a month and then another $100 on top of that, which would have taken effect in August.
She said her only rent increase in the building before that was $70 last winter.
"It's not been maintained, so maybe they did us a favour in the long run. As long as we can find a place to live, that's the problem."
Nichola Taylor, who has lived in the building for four years, said tenants in the province need help.
"There's no protection whatsoever for tenants, and so that needs to be changed," she said. "And we also need to stop these — they need a cap on the rent — so they need to stop the rental increases. It's so unfair to expect somebody to suddenly pay a huge amount of money on top of what they're already paying."
The tenants say the reason they were given for the termination of their leases was the need for renovations.
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