Canada's NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was in Coquitlam this morning, March 12, to announce his party's plan to ensure a national Rental Protection Fund is part of the next federal budget. Singh, the Burnaby South MP who was joined by Port Moody–Coquitlam MP Bonita Zarrillo at a news conference at the Tri-Branch Co-op, said his party will use the B.C. Rental Protection Fund model to expand the program across the country. The fund would be used to help nonprofits buy affordable housing when it’s on the market and keep it affordable for renters in those buildings. He said tenants in rental units shouldn't have to live in fear, thinking one day their complexes will be sold to corporations and developers. Julianne "Jewels" Cress, the president of the Tri-Branch Co-op on Packard Avenue in Coquitlam, told Singh her members — as well as those in the sister building across the road, at Garden Court — had been worrying for years about losing their units as their lease came up. But, last month, at Garden Court, Premier David Eby said Tri-Branch and Garden Court would be the first in B
Canada 's NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced his party's plan to ensure a national Rental Protection Fund in the next federal budget. The fund will help nonprofits buy affordable housing and keep it affordable for renters.
Singh aims to prevent tenants from living in fear of their complexes being sold to corporations and developers.
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