By: Donna Comte

Donna Comte — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:54:19 +0000

I would like the mayor to see some of these ideas as feasible. Specifically; owners should be given companies and addresses of these companies and their phone number so that they can get an investigation as to who and how they can get money to restore their home. Each case is individual. My daughter lives in a home operated by westminister housing; this house was a house that was on fire, and the owner asked the engineers I’m guessing to only take down the portion of the house that was destroyed. The rest he shored up . It is now rented out to 3 or 4 families, because it was a 3 story , so now her rent is just over $1000.00/month, I’m guessing the other places are charged the same. so that is generating $2000.00 to $4000.00 per month. Ross Eadie says this will generate more tax dollars. Yes a demolition and a rebuild will also generate tax dollars – there is still the cost of the demolition. So if the government acted like westminister housing some homes could be saved. Of course the fire department should be able to tell which homes can be saved right from the get go. They are the first responders to the life of the home. I am happy the fire department can demolish when necessary. Getting back to abandoned — work with the owners find out what bare minimum needed to be done and find out how much money the landlord can afford. It is possible however that some homeowners need to sell their abandoned property. It is not like homeowners end up in jail , well maybe in which case there should be a plan for someone to take care of the home when they are jail. Maybe the city has the right to rent out these home when a person is in jail. We have to find out why each home is abandoned. Some homes have been on fire 3 times WHY WHY WHY langside street near private school had a home the owner had wiring issues and needed a new roof — He put on a new roof and was set to next phase of getting assessed to see if he could rent out again and he had his father stay there so it was not abandoned and go figure the house still caught fire. — stupid house — perfect example the owner did not have enough to do both repairs at the same time. And compliance people can stop putting houses in jeapardy of getting broken into apparently by their own renegade staff . I lost severeley on a house of mine; because renegade guy broke the living room window and the front door window after compliance guy opened window for air. The home was only semi abandoned and the neighbours have big mouths — don’t report people help people. (sorry my spell check isn’t working) As for the resting phase with asbestos I did not know that. So yes the government should not expand the months to do this but increase the number of people to do the clean up during the months available according by the asbestos needs met.

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By: Donna Comte