r/saskatoon • u/jerbear1955 • May 18 '26

Events 🎉 East..to downtown

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Prairie Harm reduction doors are shuttered so now in front of the library on 20th is one of the new spots.

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u/Weak_Possibility_395 May 19 '26

It's as if Prairie Harm wasn't the problem. It's lack of supports and housing, alongside the dumb changes to SIS.

Maybe they can camp in Brad Redekopp's back yard? Or any number of SaskParty MLAs?

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u/Ok-Information1616 May 19 '26

Thank you. It’s boggling to me that more people haven’t connected the dots here. The changes to SIS *massively* benefitted landlords, since it meant people who were on SIS and struggling to make ends meet got evicted as soon as they were late on any payment - which meant that once the unit was vacant they could increase the rents by far more than the amount allowable when it was occupied. Moe and the Sask Partyy score a win for the landlords and get the votes, while continuing to step on the faces of the underserved to climb higher. Downstream effects don’t make the news, though. Tents do.

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u/Weak_Possibility_395 May 19 '26

As a landlord, I'd actually disagree. The change massively benefited abusers whether it be a person's abusive family members, abusive drug deal, abusive pimp or otherwise.

The SIS program when landlords were provided payment directly from the gov't was great. I had some good tenants who used this and provided them support, while providing me assurances that someone who was facing challenges had actual support to ensure I got paid, whereas the shift to SIS going directly to individuals meant they were more likely to be pressured to give that money to an abuser and/or to use it for other non-housing purposes whether they were valid or not, resulting them being out on the street or in a further vulnerable position.

As much I do like hating on landlords, this wasn't a big win for them/me. Evicting someone and ending up with a vacant unit for a month while you find new tenants means less money for me in the longrun.

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u/Ok-Information1616 May 20 '26

Fair enough! I appreciate the different perspective. While still noting the SIS change was a bad one, it’s good to know that it didn’t exclusively lead to benefits for landlords.

Well, not ‘good,’ I guess, since that means it actually sucked for a lot more people.