Unaffordable Housing Rental Program

How far will the government go to get out of breaking the bad news to trusting Affordable Housing Rental Program residents?  The 'moderate income tenants saving up their down payment for their first home purchase' deserve more clear communication than that they're not welcome anymore, it's time to move on, (so go on now, get out the door) and free up their unit for some low income applicants with the most financial and urgent shelter need. Awkward? It's like the Minister of Social Services doesn't really want this to be heard - was saying it out loud in the legislature not good enough, anyhow?

If the government really were serious, transparent and accountable, like the goals listed in the Saskatchewan Housing Corp. 2010 annual report, wouldn't they have first created effective, sustainable policy  that 1) defined their targeted client; 2) determined supportive, achievable rent goals; and 3) cut maximum income limits almost by half? Notifying all tenants of policy changes would come last.  Instead it was the same old rent increase notice tucked under the door l6 months ago (only another $75/mo), which SHC staff blamed on the rising costs of utilities, to just 6 months later very different public hints and suggestions at the legislature (June Draude, Hansard, Dec. 14).  Maybe Brad Wall's new TAP (Tenant Assistance Process) program run by SRHIA can help these suddenly unwelcome tenants solve their landlord management concerns.
 
How are remaining low income tenants going to pay the rent now, really?

Social Assistance Housing Allowance, single ($459) + Rental Housing Supplement (max. $222) = not enough money to pay the market rent in our province. Certainly not enough to pay the Rental Program's new rent goal of 90% of average market price (1 br $790/mo. and still soaring in parts of the province).  Is it time to supplement our rent supplement?  Or maybe just stop choosing arbitrary, unaffordable rent policies for a provincial low income housing program (90% of too much is still too much), and stick to something more sustainable and appropriate like 75% of market rent? And no, Minister, the Rental Housing Supplement (the safety net for our social safety net) remains unindexed for all but a mysterious select few of the 5,900 households, and it certainly is not indexed to the cost of inflation.
 

Yes, the Saskatchewan government indeed decreased annual taxes of certain citizens, reduced our debt,  then continued to raise the monthly taxes of the Affordable Housing Rental Program residents (approx. 3,000 homes), in an ongoing series of $75/month increases, to continue until Saskatchewan citizens say enough is enough.