After a presentation at the Budget Committee, earlier this year, Solo Landlords Inc. on Friday October 28th, for the first time in Ontario’s history, gathered elected representatives to listen to “small mom and pop landlords” and hear their struggle to offer affordable housing to Ontarians. Several hundred landlords, property owners, professionals and elected representatives attended the virtual meeting.
It started with a an introduction from Board member Varun Sriskanda who moderated the meeting, followed by Vice chair Rose Marie laying the issues and potential solutions then a powerful impact statement from actual landlords describing how the delays is affecting their mental and financial wellbeing. It ended with a closing statement from Solo Landlords chair Boubacar Bah (Boubah) and a round table.
Attending Members of Provincial Parliament also weighed in and laid out their position on the rental housing issue in Ontario
The video recording is now available for all to see. The whole video is almost 2 hours long (1h 57mn 09sec) and to watch it entirely see below:
For those who want to watch specific segments the links below will bring them to you.
1:40’ mark – Introduction by Vice Chair Rose Marie
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=100
6:39’ mark – Board member Varun Sriskanda presented the issues facing SOLO Landlords in Ontario and Solo proposals how to solve them for the benefit of all
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=399
27”42 mark – Conservative MPP Nina Tangri spoke about the issue and has to recuse herself due to previous commitment
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=1664
38:15’ mark – Landlord’s story – Kevin
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=2296
42:03’ mark – Landlord’s story – Carol
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=2526
51:50’ mark – Landlord’s story – Subhra
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=3111
1:00’ mark – Landlord’s story – Marissa & Mavin
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=3620
1:08’ mark – MPP Lucy Collar
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=4123
1:14’ mark – MPP Mitzie Hunter
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=4455
1:18’ mark – MPP Krystin Wong-Tam
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=4693
1:32’ mark – Closing remarks with Solo Chair Boubah
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=5589
1:38’ Round table from Solo Landlords
https://youtu.be/v-u29ZDGWe0?t=5917
Good watching !