Deborah Stumph is one of the few seniors in Regina coming to terms with a choice handed to her by the Regina Housing Authority — she’s being told to leave the complex by May 31 or transfer to a unit in their Senior Housing Program.
Stumph walks around her apartment, pointing out how being on the ground floor makes it easy for her to make friends in her complex. She worries that this notice will lead to her losing her community.
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“It’s just like starting over again, maybe when you’re younger, a person makes friends,” she says, “but when you got your friends and stuff here, it just doesn’t seem right at all.”
Stumph isn’t the only senior faced with this situation. Others in the complex have also spoken out with concerns about the notice of eviction.
Minister of Social Services Terry Jenson addressed the issue during Tuesday’s question period and said that after committing $86 million in the budget for renovations and repairs across the province, it’s necessary to increase the number of family units.
“We’re simply asking families, including all seniors, to maybe consider having that suite available for a family,” says the minister.
Sania Ali has more details in the video above.
This is clearly discrimination. I guess when we age we don’t deserve space.
In my opinion, evicting a senior is just wrong
That is NOT True–Regina Housing/Sask Housing are NOT ASKING the 55+ers to move–they are telling them by giving them eviction NOTICES and time frames when they either have to move to a Regina Housing senior’s complex or move to another independent rental facility
that is not true–Regina Housing/Sask housing are not asking seniors to move, they are evicting them with notices, as to when they have to MOVE OUt and if they don’t want to move to one of the senor complexes, the 55+ers HAVE to leave Regina Housing and move to some other rental property