Ernie Hardeman is speaking up after $30 000 was withdrawn from a Waterloo housing fund.
OXFORD COUNTY - Oxford County's MPP continues to ask important questions as to where money for affordable housing is going.
According to Ernie Hardeman $30 000 was diverted out of a Waterloo fund designed to help those needing homes. Oxford's MPP Ernie Hardeman explains what he has found after reviewing several procedures. "It is renewal time for insurance and we got a correspondence from Waterloo where they renewed their insurance with another provider and the Housing Services Corporation wants 2.5% of the premium. This bulk buying agency is in fact overcharging tremendously, and if it is overcharging Waterloo housing it is overcharging Oxford housing."
"This issue is in fact pointing out the real problem because this isn't something new or something they are doing different," says Hardeman. "Anybody who wants to buy their insurance, or is able to buy their insurance somewhere else, has to pay the Housing Services Corporation for not buying it from them. It is just unheard of - I'm not even sure that in the insurance industry it is a legal process."
Hardeman added this can all be resolved by the stroke of pen by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to assure residents are getting the homes they need.
Families in the Waterloo area are waiting 3-5 years for affordable housing and Hardeman keeps uncovering more shady deals that are effecting local residents. "We have 168 000 - 175 000 families of people who are waiting for supportive housing. Here we are taking the dollars that they have to provide housing and giving it to the corporation to jet set around the world on lavish tours, than to house people who are down and out. It just doesn't make any sense."
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