{"id":30032,"date":"2020-03-31T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=30032"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:46:14","slug":"horwath-holds-roundtable-by-video-conference-for-ontarians-struggling-to-pay-rent-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/31\/horwath-holds-roundtable-by-video-conference-for-ontarians-struggling-to-pay-rent-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Horwath holds roundtable by video conference for Ontarians struggling to pay rent due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath held a roundtable by video conference for Ontarians struggling to pay rent amid the COVID-19 crisis. Horwath heard from Gillian Alexander in Hamilton and Sarah Twomey in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander, a musician and freelancer, has lost performances and her teaching schedule because of COVID-19. She might be able to scrape by on rent this month by using some savings, but she&#8217;s worried about being able to keep putting groceries on the table next month.<\/p>\n<p>Twomey, a public relations professional who is currently out of work after a contract job ended last month, is concerned that she may have to dip into her retirement savings to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>To help Ontarians like Twomey and Alexander, Horwath and the NDP continue to call for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A legal ban on evictions, lockouts and disconnections for the next four months<\/li>\n<li>A rent subsidy of 80 per cent, of up to $2,500 per home per month, for the next four months<\/li>\n<li>A six-month freeze on rent increases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath held a roundtable by video conference for Ontarians struggling to pay rent amid the COVID-19 crisis. Horwath heard from Gillian Alexander in Hamilton and Sarah Twomey in Toronto. Alexander, a musician and freelancer, has lost performances and her teaching schedule because of COVID-19. She might be able to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 05:36:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30033,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30032\/revisions\/30033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}