Housing

NDP Housing critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) has questions for government about the plight of tenants in her district and elsewhere in the province.

NDP Housing Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) had a suggestion for government today on one way to help seniors attempting to deal with the current and growing housing crisis they face.

NDP Critic for Aging and Seniors Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) says years of governments refusing to face the realities of changing demographics has resulted in crisis in seniors’ housing. The mother of one of Rogers’ constituents was discovered with a black eye while waiting on a transition ward at the Waterford Hospital for a nursing home space to open up.

NDP Housing Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) says government is sitting on two important reports that could have major implications for the housing crisis in the province.

NDP Housing Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) got no answers last year when she asked about budget cuts to a vital energy conservation program. Today in the House of Assembly, she asked them again, hoping for a clearer response.

NDP Housing Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) has been outspoken on the housing crisis since her election, but says the interim premier’s recent announcement that he planned to listen to the people has encouraged her to remind government members that this is a problem they must deal with.

NDP Child, Youth and Family Services critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) wants government to take seriously the province’s housing crisis. In addition, she says, government must recognize that youth have particular housing needs that must be confronted and appropriately dealt with.

NDP Seniors Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) says if government thinks Newfoundland and Labrador is experiencing a “golden age” financially, someone should ask the province’s senior citizens to comment.

NDP Seniors Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) says if government plans to seriously deal with the growing reality of seniors living in poverty, it will have to do more than increase a supplement by six cents a day. That observation comes from a private member’s motion introduced in the House regarding the small increase in the annual Seniors’ Benefit.

NDP Housing Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John’s Centre) confronted government today with the situations of two of her constituents, both seniors, both being forced to deal with the housing crisis created by years of government neglect.