It has been about a year since the tent city on the grounds of Colonial Building in St. John’s was dismantled, but one of the volunteers believes people who stayed at the encampment are worse off today than they were then.
Laurel Huget acknowledges that efforts are being made to expand housing, but she says the focus is more on changing the rules to help developers, which means private housing. She wants to see more public housing.
Huget is calling on Premier-designate John Hogan to take immediate steps to improve things such as bringing in rent control and instituting no-fault evictions.
Laurel Huget (VOCM News)
She says there was a time when profit wasn’t such a priority in housing – at least not over people.
“Government had a lot more to do then in protecting tenants from landlords and ensuring supply,” said Huget on the Tim Powers Show on VOCM.
The Tim Powers Show airs from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. weekdays.
