Tent City Residents Promised Shelter At A B.c. Hotel Evicted For Not Paying Rent
According to the Vancouver Sun, some homeless residents who were offered shelter at one of B.C.’s single-occupancy hotels in Vancouver have been told they have as little as 24 hours to pay rent or vacate.
Fawn Auger, a tenant of B.C. Housing’s program at the Patricia Hotel was scrambling to pack up her belongings Friday after an eviction notice was slipped under her room’s doorway the previous day.
She held up the notice that stated she owed $3,562.50 in unpaid rent. “You have 24 hours to pack all your belongings and leave,” states the handout from Atira Property Management, the company B.C. commissions to operate the hotel.
