Run screaming. From The Toronto Sun:
Thanks for nothing: Provincial cash for social housing must go to green energy projects
This is a case where you want to look the proverbial gift horse in the mouth.
Ontario Housing Minister Peter Milczyn has just announced plans to make “major investments in social housing repairs and retrofits” across the province.
“Helping Ontario’s most vulnerable find stable housing is critically important to our goal of ensuring everyone in the province has a safe place to call home,” Milczyn said in announcing a five-year cash commitment of $657 million.
Except:
On the surface, the announcement is good news for residents in Toronto’s dilapidated social housing homes and apartments, and for the City of Toronto, which has a $2.6-billion social housing repair backlog and unsolvable social housing crisis.
Toronto will get about half the funds Milczyn announced, but here’s the rub
All the money, the minister’s office confirmed, is earmarked for green energy renovations, not what’s actually needed — cash to fix units and buildings so run down from neglect and abuse that they are uninhabitable.
To be specific:
So instead of cash for worn out kitchen cabinets, broken toilets and new floors, the city will get money for building insulation, maybe some rooftop solar panels and new energy efficient windows — “to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save money on electricity costs,” the province said in a release.
Unreal - I bet $10 that the good Mr. Milczyn was not elected to his position and that he was either hired by another non-elected bureaucrat or was appointed by someone who owed him a favor. After all, nepotism is OK as long as you keep it in the family.
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