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Letter: So many Sudbury Housing units remain empty

Reader frustrated as taxpayers burdened with the costs
housing
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It is frustrating to see how poorly the Greater Sudbury Housing Corp. looks after their (our) rental properties.

I understand they have hundreds of such rental properties in their care within the region.

I walk by three of these vacant homes every morning on my walk. Most have been sitting there vacant/empty for many months. It’s so poor, so expensive to the taxpayer.

I am certain they can offer all kinds of excuses why these remain empty as such.

I think I know the reason — government bureaucracy at its best. So poor.

We’ve owned numerous rentals all of our lives, and I cannot recall once in 30 years where we had an empty unit for more than a week. We worked and made certain of that. 

Some of these have been empty for the better part of a year. It’s such a tax burden on the taxpayer.

I trust that other various city departments operate more frugally than this. Our taxes are high enough as it is.

Gilles Brunet

Sudbury