🎞️ Watch the latest Fair Rent Ontario Vignette - Doctor @StephenHwang on why Rent Control is a Healthcare Issue: 🤔 What does rent control have to do with healthcare? Everything. Lack of rent control and skyrocketing rents harm our communities' health while driving up costs for Ontario’s healthcare system. 🔁 Every week, healthcare professionals like Dr. Hwang see patients whose health deteriorates because of unaffordable housing. Families are being forced into impossible choices between rent and health. 🏥 Key Health Impacts: 🟣 Children’s Health: Families forced to move repeatedly or face eviction are seeing children experience emotional and behavioural problems, depression, academic struggles, and drug use. 🔶 Long-Term Harm: The health impacts on children from unstable housing aren’t short-lived—they affect their well-being for generations. 🟣 Homelessness & Health Costs: High rents lead to evictions and homelessness, worsening pre-existing health conditions. Shelters and emergency healthcare systems bear the enormous costs. 💬 Key Takeaway: "Simply put, the lack of rent control is harming the health of our children in ways that will last for generations to come, it's increasing homelessness and healthcare costs, and it's having tremendous adverse impacts on our communities as a whole." 📢 It’s time to protect the well-being of our children and communities, reduce preventable healthcare costs, and tackle homelessness at its root. 👉 Join Dr. Hwang in uniting with us for full rent control and building a future where all renters have stable homes and secure futures! 🔗 Join the movement today: FairRentOntario.ca #DemandFairRent
