It was an emotional day for Sarah Banks as she walked through the front door of her home, moving back in with her family one year after a tornado touched down in a Barrie neighbourhood.
BARRIE, ONT. According to a local real estate agent, residents who were impacted by the tornado and now looking for short-term rentals in Barrie are going to have a hard time. “You’re going to see hundreds and hundreds of people displaced, and the question is where do they go,” said Evan Persyko, real estate agent with Right at Home Realty. With 67 homes deemed unsafe by the city alone, combined with sky-high prices and limited supply, Persyko says it could lead to a housing crisis. “There are really no rentals on the market to accommodate this influx of people,” Persyko said. “The supply is very low we need people who have vacant properties to reach out and lets find these people homes.”