Trenton, Ont. tenants fear further renoviction – Kingston | 24CA News
Seventy-year-old Connie Hum and her neighbours have been worrying about the opportunity of being pressured from their properties because of renoviction.
They stay in buildings owned by Klemencic Properties, and late final 12 months, 4 comparable condominium buildings on Sidney Street in Trenton, Ont., had been offered by Klemencic to Bedford Properties, which relies out of Mississauga.
“A lot of anxiety … uncertainty,” mentioned Hum, who worries a possible renoviction might halt her upcoming retirement plans.
Within just a few months, Bedford introduced they might be doing intensive renovations… and gave notices to residents that their leases wouldn’t be renewed, and to vacate the residences for the work to be finished.
Reached by cellphone, Andy Klemencic of Klemencic Properties says that the buildings on Campbell Street, the place Hum lives, are usually not listed on the market and there’s no deal at the moment in place for them.
A letter from Klemencic was despatched to Quinte West council on July 28 that learn, partly:
“While I cannot say that we are completely in agreement with Bedford’s approach to ‘encouraging’ tenants to move out, we are aware of some positive outcomes.”
Still, Hum and her neighbours concern what the long run might deliver.
“We live in these buildings because they’re affordable. A lot are seniors. A lot are on fixed incomes. They have nowhere to go,” mentioned Hum.
Hum, together with different involved native tenants, shaped a gaggle they’ve dubbed the “Quinte West Affordable Housing Coalition” to let native, provincial and federal governments know that they need and need assistance — if and after they discover themselves on the receiving finish of a renoviction discover.
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