Dear Editor:
RE: ‘We need to do things differently’: desire for housing plan voiced at health, housing symposium, March 21.
So $65,000 was spent to dive deep into housing? I could have saved them a lot of time and money – the answer they cannot afford it! But why does housing cost so much?
If you keep asking why, you will eventually and pretty much always get to the root of the issue. Just throwing “housing” money to hold symposiums isn’t going to fix the issue, but alas our councillors tell us it’s all covered by the feds! What a relief for us taxpayers … wait, where does the federal government get its money?
“Well, you’re just lucky to have housing and health and stuff,” I hear them say. Well yeah, I am super lucky to get up every day and be away from my family to work long hours to afford it. I am so lucky to have 20 to 30 per cent in taxes taken from those pay cheques. That’s money that could have improved mine and my family’s life. So lucky.
You know what, maybe I will throw 65k at a symposium that will fix the problem.
Garrett Vanheeswyk,
Wellington North