Residents of the Glenmore Gardens apartment complex on 90 Avenue S.W. in Calgary are facing huge rent increases as they renew their leases.
"We just had gotten a lease and it said that we're going up $600."
"Thankfully, I can afford it as long as I'm being very strict with my budget. But I do have two small kids. I'm a single mom. So it's going to be tight for sure," she said. "You need the temporary measures, just a quick cap to alleviate that out-of-control increase," Al-Guneid said.The minister of seniors, community and social services, Jason Nixon, says rent caps will never happen under the UCP's watch.
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