Low-End-of-Market Rentals
To eliminate homelessness, Greater Sudbury needs an additional 301 LEM units.
Boarded up rental building on Elgin Street
Low-End-of-Market Rentals (LEM), also known as Deeply Affordable Rental Housing are rentals that go for 60% or less, of the municipality’s average rent. They may be supplied by non-profit and co-op organizations.
Three rental buildings that the city demolished.
Others are found in the private sector. These private-sector units may have health or safety issues. I have heard some horror stories including units with:
• bedbugs and roaches.
• no running water.
• no electricity.
• no locks on the door.
Vacancy rate for all one-bedroom apartments in Greater Sudbury.
Roadmap for Ending Homelessness by 2030
As of July 11, 2022, Greater Sudbury had a community housing stock of 3,356 units—359 LEM units and 2,997 RGI units. As of September 2022, over 70 per cent of the waitlist was seeking a one–bedroom unit.
Due to the size of the waitlist (1,050 households in December 2023), it can take over four-years for a household to be housed in an RGI unit .
A Housing Supply and Demand Analysis report completed by City of Greater Sudbury Planning Services showed Greater Sudbury’s supply of Low-End of Market (LEM–60 per cent of Average Market Rent) falls short of demand. A minimum of 301 LEM units are needed
(Report page 32)
Description:
To meet current demand, a minimum of 301 Low-End-of-Market (LEM) rental units are needed.
Cost:
N/A
(Appendix A, page 1)
Greater Sudbury needs to gain an additional 301 low-cost rental units without them being slum housing with serious health or safety issues.
They could build more co-op housing projects or purchase residential buildings and have the units managed by qualified non-profit organizations. That would be two practical solutions.
It is unlikely that the private sector will fill this need.
What Canada needs is social housing. Lots of social housing. Billions of dollars spent every year for many years. Nothing less will work.
It starts with Ottawa. They cut social housing spending decades ago. The provinces followed. Worse, Harris downloaded social housing onto the municipalities. The cities can't afford to build, operate and maintain social housing. No way.
We have had both both Liberal and Conservative governments, both provincially and federally. None of them took on this responsibilty. Not one.
Even with ten years of Trudeau, nothing has been done to create more social housing.
i don't understand why its so hard for are city to house the low income people and the homeless... i see so many buildings that could be used as housing for these people including me.....really not hard i mean im willing to volunteer to work on these buildings' to get them ready for people to live in.....our government needs to step up they have no clue how hard it is for us to be able to afford an apartment especially when o.w. gives u onl 735.00 a month are u f......k kidding me who budgets this shit??? basic rent they think is 500 dollars a month are they on crack???? there f...k ignorant assholes that have no worries about how there gonna live u cant rent a room for less than 800.00 a month so where the f...k do they get this number from????? even odsp isn't enough ,do they not no how much food is or rent???? are they stupid ??? I'm thinking yes they are f...k idiots i hope they all become homeless and have to live on the streets that's the only way they can understand OPEN YOUR EYES ASSHOLES AND CHANGE ARE AMOUNT FOR O.W. AN ODSP WE NEED AT LEAST 2000.OO A MONTH TO LIVE DUMB ASSES I HOPE U ALL ROT IN HELL