Basic income was helping with crushing cost of housing: Survey

Basic income was helping with crushing cost of housing: Survey

More than 58 per cent of people collecting basic income were trying to change their housing situation, according to a new survey. OBIP Chronicles — Finding affordable housing in Ontario hasn’t been easy for decades. Finding it in Kawartha Lakes has been even more difficult of late, with the 2018 figures showing a 1.5 per cent vacancy rate, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CHMC) 2018 fall report. A healthy vacancy rate is more like three per cent.

For people collecting basic income in Lindsay, Hamilton area, and Thunder Bay area, the pressures they were facing with housing […]

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