Vancouver Sun: Rental housing crisis looms
Posted July 21, 2011
When Tom Durrie moved to Vancouver in the 1960s, it was a dream come true for the California native. But these days, he has to work a job-and-a-half just to keep a roof over his head.
Durrie, 80, is a victim of Metro Vancouver’s rental housing market, which gobbles up nearly half his paycheque every month and keeps reaching into his pocket for more every year.
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