Ministry staff studying
aid for needy says NSTA

RICHARD BLACKBURN of the North Shore
Tenants Association says his group may convince
the government to add provisions for financial aid
to the new landlord-tenant legislation despite
claims from Consumer and Corporate Affairs
Minister James Hewitt that there won’t be further
changes to the act.

Blackburn said Tuesday
that the provincial ministry
has agreed to study a
number of options for pro-
viding financial aid for those

who can’t afford a proposed
$30 fee for having non-
monetary
Jjud:iecated by a
government-appointed

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Agreement followed
meetings between the
Minister and representatives
of the North Shore group
and its counter-part from the
west end of Vancouver

Blackburn says the tenants
groups presented the
Minister with a number of
ways in which the concern
could be answered including
giving arbitrators the power

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to waive the $30 fee in ap-
propriate cases or having the
Ministry of Human
Resources make crisis grants
available.

The arbitration system,
which replaces the office of
the Rentalsman, is one of
the major changes in the new
legislation. Arbitrators
would be appointed by the
government to hear disputes
that do not involve money
— those whould still go to

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the courts — and would be
given the power to decline to
hear disputes.

A second major change ts
the removal of an_ earlier
proposal that landlord’s be
given the right to evict te-
nants without cause. A
clause in the new act also
makes it impossible for te-
‘nants to be evicted because
of rent increases, which will
be limited in frequency.

Blackburn said the tenants

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groups’ latest attempt to
have changes made to the
legislation now rests in the
hands of the ministry staff
which will study the question
of financial aid and then
report back to Hewitt.

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