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Tenants group delivers letter to the province demanding relief for renters
The NB Coalition for Tenants Rights is asking Premier Blaine Higgs for relief for tenants in the form of retroactive rent caps, a moratorium on evictions, and a rent bank fund for people struggling to pay the rent.
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It s gross negligence to not have acted on this already says Matthew Hayes of NB Coalition for Tenants Rights
Posted: Feb 09, 2021 5:23 PM AT | Last Updated: February 10
William Morisette has experienced some of the problems the NB Tenants Coalition is working to solve. He was given notice of a 62 per cent rent hike in October 2020 at his Moncton apartment building after it sold. It forced him and his family to move. (Guy Leblanc/CBC)