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Vancouver Sun: Rental housing crisis looms - ACORN Canada

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.

Read the full story here.