Letters, Sept. 12: Reader urges province to freeze rents so poor can catch up

I am disgusted that the provincial government is allowing a 4.5-per-cent annual rent increase for 2019. Rents have gone up by almost 14 per cent over the past four years. Aren’t tenants suffering enough?
I live in the Comox Valley, a depressed area. Half of tenants here spend more than 30 per cent of their incomes on rent, putting us below the poverty line. Many are much worse off. One out of every five B.C. renters is paying upwards of 70 per cent of their income on rent. Since they are h