
‘Stop the bleeding’: Residents urge Kitchener to push forward with renoviction bylaw
Committee members, city staff, and residents were split on Monday night as to whether or not a bylaw would help put an end to renovictions in Kitchener. When it comes to the effectiveness of the bylaw currently in place in Hamilton, Jacquie Wells, chair of the Waterloo Region chapter of ACORN, claims that the statistics show that the bylaw is working. “I just showed you that in Hamilton they’ve had a 99 per cent reduction in the number of N13s issued in the first five months, so even if they receive more in the remaining seven months, this is still a significant reduction,” said Wells.