A St. John’s man on the brink of homelessness is facing the possibility of losing his son due to a lack of housing options for people with kids.
Tristen Keats, who turns 27 this month, lives with his mother and his three-year-old son, Jacoby, in a small basement apartment that is advertised for only one person.
“Here we are now with people living on the side of the street in tents,” Keats said. “Me and him are just about there now, right? We got a couple months.”
They are running out of time, as his mother’s landlord has given them a few months to find a new place.
He and his son are among the many people caught in the housing crisis that is sweeping across the country and hitting Newfoundland and Labrador. Social housing and emergency shelters are in high demand, leading many people to take the only home they’ve known for months — a tent — and station themselves in public spaces around St. John’s.
And if facing homelessness is tough, when children are involved, the struggle can be worse.
I’m only exposing a viewpoint that represents the reality of how a lot of landlord see these people. That’s why I shared my experience with my shitty tenants which provide a reasonable explanation of why a landlord wouldn’t want to risk taking someone like the guy in the article. And yeah, that sucks but that’s how the world is right now.
You are telling me that I’m a motherfucker because you think that I think that because he has tattoos, he deserves not getting an appartment?
What are you even bringing to this conversation asides from probably saying that landlords are “leeching the society therefore, they shouldn’t exists” ? You are virtue signalling and you are a piece of shit for doing it.