Mr. Speaker, we fully understand that there was an accumulation of arrears during this time. As far as bringing a bill forward, I do know that some LHOs sometimes will write off arrears, but that then goes to the Housing Corporation to collect the arrears. As far as forgiving the bill, we have to be very careful here that if we do this, we set a precedent, and even arrears that were accumulated before the transfer are going to obviously be expected to be forgiven. If there’s a way that we can work with tenants to try and work on their arrears and, like you said, the LHOs really recognize the fact that some of this happened because of the assessment and the timeliness of it and they made adjustments. So we have to be very careful as to how far we want to go with this. Thank you.
Robert C. McLeod on Question 289-16(4): Public Housing Rental Subsidy Program
In the Legislative Assembly on February 10th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 289-16(4): Public Housing Rental Subsidy Program
Oral Questions
February 9th, 2010
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