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that is "affordable"). With the changes put forâ€" ward by Leach, the number of people who canâ€" not afford their accommodation will skyrocket. His claims of ignorance aside, Leach would have been told that over a quarter of all tenant households move within any given threeâ€"year period. Thus, his claim of protecting tenants where they live is litle more than a cynical ploy. Within the term of this government, nearâ€" ly half the tenants in the province will face an unregulated rent increase. At the same time, Leach is promising to give want. In addition, new buildings, which are currently given five years before rent control q;plia,nmpumu}yew. If there was any evidence that tenants had an abundnmedcxmwh,(hcpropuddnnps might be defensible. In fact, the average income for Ontario‘s 1.2 million tenant households is just a shade over half that of homeowners‘ â€" $34,000 a year compared to $60,000. Already, a third of those tenant households are paying. «more than 30 per cent of their income toward housing (the threshold commonly used to decide whether someone Mike Harris‘ perplexing belief that "too much knowledge is a dangerous thing" for cabinet ministers., One of the areas in which | â€" Leach has most clearly demonâ€" ) strated his lack of understanding ns is the issue of rent control. Under his soâ€"called Tenant Protection package, landlords will still be subject to a rentâ€" control guideline â€" but only until the current termudeddcwmm.lldulq;pas,ug landlord can increase the rent as much as they apparently inspired by Premier Al Leach, Ontario‘s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has boasted that "you could fit Wtrylhin‘lhwflaouhomh‘ on the head of a pin and still have room left over for the Lord‘s Prayer".. His appointment was We still need rent control Leach is promising to give is living in housing Local developer Lyle Hallman has admitted in the Kâ€"W Record (which supports Leach‘s pacl:ag:inspiuoldiuvidan)dnhfi&g will not be stimulated in this area, "because people won‘t pay $900 a month in rent. That‘s what we need to build a new building and llm‘twhywcluvca(oulmm‘pumm The Tories claim that the real impetus behind this proposal is the need to increase the availâ€" ability of rental units Call it the "Field of Dreams* approach: if you kill it (rent control), they will build. The reality is that, without a hngconyfingmbfidywhldlords.nbj‘um economically viable for the private sector to build new rental accommodation. Anything new that is built will be at the "high end" of the z. landlords were permitted to â€" increase rents according to 2 guideline which has consistently i been above the inflation rate. If they can prove the need for major repairs, they were allowed to exceed the ‘uidcfimbydmpacmlorupmd.u years. It is clear that landlords who have been whining about their inability to fund necessary mundcrmucomrollnvchadlmkpui- fication for doing so. A landlord who didn‘t do repairs under the Liberal legislation (which permitted tripling of rent in some cases) and didn‘t do them under the current law, won‘t suddenly decide to do them when rent control through more subtle means. only will this change increase the number of evictions for all of the old reasons (organizing a enanis‘ association, complaining about maintenance, eic.), but it will the landlords something else that mrspiipomannmiammatvurmontniitfinetnonnotenenesmnesesesmemsssw zs . e e en en Oe ns nmtcien â€" easier evictions. Not STACKABLE SHOE C‘B’"Eg 1; SALE 39:3:':,. Buy 2 and get them for $29.95 each TACIK A SHELF Wteigroptimrennosseremmmemmanmenmma.2 Nrremninnromnnememenemnnmmnemin B