Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 1981 first step taken to expropriate property for Cor Earea plan City Council yesterday approved if principle the expropriation of land for Winnipeg Core area native stressing there will be ample Unity for citizen and business input before the actual mayor Bill Norrie said councils approval was necessary because the expropriations must be confirmed by land to be taken Over by the City includes properties North of Logan ave land North of Portage Avenue Between Edmonton and Carlton streets and about five acres of land around the Canadian National railways East rents May Rise As Supply experts warn by Ingeborg Boyens Manitoba renters May soon have As much to complain about As their frustrated Homeowner hous ing experts predicted because few developers Are building new apartment vacancy rates Are bound to and without the Protection of rent rents can Rise in response to the reduced it is not an exaggeration to talk about a said nip fort Rouge candidate Roland predicting rent increases of 20 to 30 per three quarters of canadians Are being priced right out of their Homes and he there is a danger because Supply is limited that prices will agreed Christine director of the Institute of Urban studies at the University of Winnipeg apartment vacancy rates Are expected to drop to Between to per cent in october from per cent in during the first four months of this Canada mortgage and housing corporation was unable to report any new apartment construction during the rent control an average of new rental units were built each in the year rent controls were starts took building disclosure approved the civic health department will now Post the addresses of buildings closed by the City due to noncompliance with cleanup orders As Well As the names of their City Council yesterday voted to implement a building disclosure overriding fierce opposition from the Manitoba landlords arguing there Are sufficient bylaws to enforce building sanitation Robert lawyer for the land lords said repairs Are usually required because of tenant de Smethurst said City notices May not be complied with because landlords May not be Able to afford the expense of the association president Sidney Silverman told Council landlords May sometimes not have enough Money for let alone As Smethurst suggested land lords May not comply with notices because there May be questions As to the City inspectors qualifications or authority to require certain remedial work to be a danger of Smethurst is that the Media could tar All landlords with the same Brush by Mak ing generalizations from one or two posted bylaw is directed Harvey Smith argued that the bylaw is directed to noncomplying landlords who put off he noted the cites food establishment disclosure bylaw was not opposed by any restau rant Silverman had threatened to publish the names of destructive tenants if the bylaw is he said he is considering publishing the names of 25 to 35 tenants for every landlord Dis the associations 800 members have usually complied with All upgrading Silverman publishing the names of noncomplying landlords would give the association a bad image since the Public assumes All landlords Are members of the the City gives out about mandatory housing orders annually which cover the spectrum of repairs and Only about 120 premises Are actually closed Ana Pla about 30 landlords a year Are taken to court for contravening housing cloy owned properties in the affected areas will be made available to the Cor Earea program at and Cost and teases to those properties will be can celled As and when the provincial and Federal governments Are expected to take similar Steps with respect to properties belonging to this is the first very Small step toward the end said the speaking before the Promislow said the City must ensure Cor Earea residents will be employed in the Logan Avenue Industrial the councillor also spoke against sacrificing prime commercial on the North Side of Portage Avenue to construct a downtown Norrie assured Council industries in the Logan Avenue Industrial Park will be suited to the areas it will be a neighbourhood Industrial he the mayor dismissed criticisms that the Portage Avenue Park would attract loiter ers and adding that the area has not been commercially Suc the programs policy committee is due to meet tomorrow to review propos als and formulate Council also agreed to appoint Richard the cites senior budget As an associate member to the Core area initiative programs management Manitoba housing and renewal corporation Hast authorized any new rental accommodations since Karl Federal provincial relations officer for said we Are now at the very end of construction so far tenants have been Able to Cope with increased rents by moving to cheaper things May change now that there is less said Guy president of the Mani Toba Home builders has already stated tenants should expect rent increases of 10 to 15 per cent next reduction in Supply Saul manager of planning and program develop ment for Manitoba housing and re Newal said the reduction in Supply will have Little Impact on tenants since shelter allowance like will offset the Rise in the lowest income earners will be he Penner told reporters rent controls should be re instituted in Manitoba to offset potential massive rent he said he would like to impose rent controls for a five year or if the Supply situation had not the Winnipeg lawyer said the de control process failed to stimulate construction activity the Way govern ment spokesmen had Falk said an investor probably would look at the absence of controls As a plus in his building but economic like High interest Are Likely More Penner conceded that High Mort Gage costs have had a detrimental Impact on Small developers and land he its the speculators who have several Grant programs the candidate said there Are sever Al Grant and loan such As the residential rehabilitation Assis Tance that developers can take advantage i these dont work to promote the province must step in to ensure the housing Supply is he Mckee said rent controls could be one of several options governments could consider in trying to Cope with a reduced she said controls be introduced and withdrawn abruptly for fear of upsetting the consumer and corporate affairs minister Gary Filmon said Penner must have his head in the Sand if he thinks the construction of new apart ments is subject Only to rent con Filmon said it was understandable that developers we rent building in a Market where Supply was still ample and interest rates topped 22 per although there will be fewer suites Filmon said tenants need not fear outrageous rent Calls to the rentals mans office in recent weeks have shown that rent increases for the fall renewal season Are higher than they were in the year immediately after the end of said in a oneyear period after july the median rent increase was or 10 per Filmon said he didst know How High the increases but they we rent anywhere near the 20 to 30 per cent level predicted by the minister said he has ordered about 400 arbitration reviews in the past two the process is in place and we intend to make it he Penner said his door knocking in the fort Rouge area showed there Are Many tenants who face unacceptable rent increases but Are too afraid to take advantage of the arbitration Penner said tenants be expected to prove that a landlord is asking for unacceptable rent who have More expertise in business should have to prove that their rent demands Are justified As they did under rent Margaret Myran reads letter from province to children from left 14 and dispute threatens native family Mother of seven fears lean Winter after Grants for daughters Cut off by Cecil Rosner Margaret Myran says she is going to have trouble buying Winter clothes for some of her children this All because of a Federal provincial dispute which has denied her four daughters student a single Mother of seven with no source of income other than says four of her children who attend High school have Cut off Lowin come Grants which had been provided in previous the reason Myran and her children Are status and even though she Hast lived on a Reserve for 14 the provincial student Aid Branch ref uses to provide any Grants to High school students who Are treaty in both Federal and provincial govern ments insist it is the others responsibility to assist treaty Indian students who live off the we barely exist on what welfare gives us Myran she said her children need new clothes for the school year and the absence of the Grants will make it More difficult to make ends a pair of Good running shoes costs these Days can you imagine what it would Cost to buy seven pairs in previous byrans High school age children have received Grants of annually from the prov she has filed an Appeal with the student Aid Appeal Board to protest the cancellation of this years Frederic director of the provincial student Aid con firmed yesterday that his department makes the Grants available to All Eligi ble Low income students except status he said the indians Are a Federal this for the first the Branch has inserted a question on its application form asking whether the applicant is a status Kleiman said there May have been cases in previous years indians getting the Grants by but the new questionnaire will make it easier to identify each even though Kleiman insisted that the native students Are Ottawa re the Federal government is refusing to provide them with any Ron director of education for the Federal Indian affairs department in said yesterday his depart ment has never offered that Type of assistance to status indians living off the we take the position that they Are residents of the they pay they Are contributing members of society and should be eligible for any Grant which anyone else Penner Penner said he believes there has been a significant change in their the provincial student Aid Branch approach if not their policy in now refusing to provide funding for the Indian he said it May be As a result of the two Levels of government hardening their positions on responsibility for of Reserve As for the provincial governments position that it will give Grants to All Low income High school students in Manitoba with the exception of status Penner said it sounds Al most Doest it officials in the Indian affairs depart ment have suggested that the problem be discussed Between Federal and provincial governments at the ministerial Penner he added that it is something which should be addressed Kleiman rejected the suggestion that his Branch had inserted the question on Indian status As a Way to identify ineligible he said the question is being asked so the department can better identify Metis and no status Indian who Are now eligible under a program which gives annual the Branch is administering the program this year for the first trustees association president defends boards right to set raises the president of the Manitoba association of school trustees has endorsed Winnipeg division trustees right to raise their pay by 51 per cent this Myrtle Zimmerman said yesterday that while she comment on the amount of Money i strongly defend their right to exercise local control to make that i believe school boards Are elected to make decisions concerning education in their Zimmerman said in an interview trustees should have the same rights As Federal provincial Las and City councillors to raise their asked if she thought it appropriate for trustees to vote themselves Large raises while calling for restraint in program Zimmerman refused saying she didst know what an adequate salary for a Winnipeg trustee would but a trustee in Assini Boine South said she support giving her own Board the same salaries As trustees in the larger and More Complex Winnipeg Assiniboine South Secretary Treasur or Peter Gordon said trustees there voted earlier this year to raise their salaries by 25 per to from Board chairman Dave Morriss salary Rose by 33 per to from asked if she considered these in creases too Zimmerman i suppose it depends on what your View Point to an children Are our most important City Council okays 4screen driven City Council has approved the construction of a four screen driven at Plessis Road and the Tran Canada Highway on condition that the theatre company pay for All services provid mayor Bill Norrie broke the 1313tie vote last night in favor of the famous players area residents who appeared at the Council meeting said the driven will mean increased traffic in their neigh theres lots of kids who play around said Mary a Resi dents of Symington Road since theres no Way the Street can handle Caesar Roeland of Dawson Road said Council had made a very poor i have a feeling some of these councillors dont even have an idea what the roads Are like out he the civic environment committee had turned Down the theatre application Jim Ragsdill also opposed the plan because of the proposed Drivins proximity to Symington Acci City Hall notebook dents will result if the Yards have to be evacuated because of a he final construction plans indicating the design and location of the proposed garbage and drainage facilities must first be approved by the environment commissioner As Well As the vital and East Kildonan Transcona Community committees before building permits Are free Trade zone backed backed by councils vote of con mayor Bill Nome says he will now seek support for his free Trade zone plan from the provincial Council members yesterday unanimously approved a proposal to turn Winnipeg into the country first free Trade the common in the United states and other would allow manufacturers to import foreign raw materials into Winnipeg duty free and Export finished goods without having to pay custom Anco Export the says could be established in conjunction with the Core area initiatives proposed Logan Indus trial Park or within any of the cites other Industrial new accounting to begin Council yesterday granted its administration authority to implement the first phase of the cites new financial reporting the computerized costing an estimated is expected to improve the finance committees control Over phase i of the which will Cost is scheduled to take six the second and third phases Are expected to take 14 and 20 months councillors Joe Zuken and Phil Rizzuto opposed the new arguing it requires further Zuken said the system is not a top priority while agreeing that the system has the councillor wanted to defer the plan for at least two years because of the grim eco nomic situation facing our Rizzuto asked similar systems be studied to see How Treyve worked its a big amount of Money and i dont know if were going to get the Benefit out of he finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky said the system will not affect the current budget or Mill he noted that the City must Bear extra financial burdens by not having information about expenditures readily before the second and third phases of the proposal Are the finance committee and Council will have to approve Cost estimates for estimated staff implications and cos Benefit debentures authorized City Council has approved a five year i omillion debenture Issue to be sold at 17 per Council passed a bylaw to authorize the borrowing of Money by the Issue and Sale of the Money realized from the sales will be used for the 1981 capital works expend t ;