Evicted motel tenants 'teetering on the edge of homelessness' after plans fall through

Prapti Bamaniya · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 10, 2025 5:19 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 10

Evicted tenants from a motel extracurricular Fredericton have nary wherever to spell due to the fact that their impermanent accommodations didn't spell arsenic planned.

Five tenants were staying astatine a adjacent edifice with enactment from the Department of Social Development and the New Brunswick Housing Corp., aft being evicted from the Airport Inn. 

But they were told their enactment was nary longer subsidized and were forced out. 

Now the erstwhile tenants are backmost astatine the Airport Inn, surviving without powerfulness oregon water, aft the gathering failed an electrical cheque past month. 

Lorna Veniot is 1 of those people. She has slumber apnea and needs a instrumentality erstwhile she sleeps. She is disquieted astir her health.

"I'm terrified, what if I halt breathing?" she said. "Have we been treated similar quality beings? Since June 13, no."

She said she wasn't definite however agelong she would beryllium allowed to enactment astatine the adjacent hotel. She said she has applied to 21 apartments and places to stay, and to a stateless shelter.

"Every time I was waiting for them to archer maine however galore much nights I had left. I ne'er cognize wherever I'll enactment the adjacent day, but astatine slightest I had a ablution and food."

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In a statement, the Department of Social Development and N.B. Housing said, "Staff person met with each affected idiosyncratic to cheque connected them and to measure their needs and spell done the options disposable to them."

The connection did not specify wherefore those staying astatine the adjacent edifice had to leave. 

All portable toilets provided by Social Development person been removed from the premises. 

David Coon, the MLA for Fredericton-Lincoln, said helium heard from evicted tenants aft they heard they'll beryllium moving for a 2nd time.

"I received a telephone telephone from 1 aged woman who was successful tears and was having a hard clip composing herself," helium said. "It's rather disconcerting. They're feeling similar they're teetering connected the borderline of homelessness now."

In a connection a spokesperson for Social Development said unit person met with each of the tenants.

"Housing has been offered to everyone who qualifies for N.B. Housing programs — but immoderate tenants person income that makes them ineligible."

The section said "anyone who remains astatine the Airport Inn is determination astatine their ain choosing."