Compassionate approach needed on housing affordability

By Letters to the Editor
Updated July 14 2019 - 11:35am, first published 12:00am

The feature on the unaffordability of rentals (July 7) was timely but neglected the real causes of high rentals. Since 1980 to the present the stock of public housing has fallen from around 13,000 units to around 10,000. That added to the present crisis.

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