Reader letter: Federal authorities must step as much as deal with housing backlog

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Re: Fleeing Taliban, faculty founder amongst a whole bunch of Afghan refugees in Windsor, by Doug Schmidt, Oct. 7

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The narrative on this article particulars an Afghan household that now resides in Windsor.

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The factor is there are roughly 6,000 folks in Windsor-Essex who’re additionally ready for reasonably priced housing, so how did this household get a house when there are millions of others who’ve lived, labored and paid taxes in Canada who can’t get the identical housing that Mr. Frotan has acquired.

It seems to me Mr. Frotan received bumped to the entrance of the road.

I’m not anti-immigration, I’m anti-favouritism.

The reply to me is easy.

The federal authorities must construct residential items for all immigrants they assist carry into this nation.

Between 1942 and 1946, the federal authorities helped assemble roughly 46,000 homes (known as war-time homes) to deal with staff within the struggle industries.

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These similar homes type a number of the most reasonably priced properties within the communities they had been constructed as a result of they had been fundamental, reasonably priced homes. They had been constructed by the predecessor of the present Canada Mortgage and Housing Company.

If the federal authorities and its civil servants may begin serving to to construct new housing for each immigrants and Canadians, there wouldn’t be such an issue.

The federal authorities can’t maintain passing the buck onto the provinces, who then move the buck onto the municipalities. They should assist construct housing for each immigrants and Canadians now.

Richard G. Summers, Windsor

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