Making rent during a pandemic
With rent due Wednesday, and hundreds of thousands going without work because of the pandemic, we’re looking at the inability of tenants to pay, and what’s being offered to help.
For many Canadians, rent is due on the first of the month. But nearly half of the households in this country have lost work due to the pandemic, and emergency government benefits are not yet in people's pockets.
Today on Front Burner, an anxious Vancouver tenant on her concerns about making rent, and Toronto lawyer Caryma Sa'd on what is being done to keep tenants housed as their incomes evaporate.
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