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Feedback: Rental costs on the rise

Kelowna readers react to news that rents keep on going up in Kelowna
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Readers of the 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ Facebook page reacted to our story on kelownacapnews.com about .

Tara Dawn:

I don91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™t blame the landlords, their costs have gone up too. We live in a city with lots of low-paying jobs available and no one wanting to or able to work for those wages and no place to live on what the median incomes here are.

Wages can91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™t go up without small businesses going under, property and interest rates are up so it costs more for homeowners to keep their houses and pay their mortgages, and it91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s a seemingly endless cycle with no solutions being proposed by leadership at a the civic level or anywhere else. The only solution is to escape but we91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™re all trapped here in poverty to even do that. It91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s like the black hole over here.

Debra Sawarin:

I blame the landlords somewhat. Some of them feel that their basement suite rental should cover the cost of their mortgage for the whole house. I think the fact that rentals go for so much money to summer tourists has given some landlords unreasonable expectations.

Amanda Hewson:

B.C. will suck people dry, its taxes that kill. People are leaving BC for better opportunities. It91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s sad.



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