Pensioner rents scaled
The Christchurch City Council approved its first system of diff.rential rentals for pensioner flats last evening, to reflect the scale of accommodation available io Trom September 21, rentals for single units will range from $9 to $10.57 a week, and double units trom $l5 to $17.62 a week. According tu age and available facilities council fiats have been put in three categories. The oldest category of seven housing complexes has 176 units: newer cate-' gories have 667 and 468 Present weekly rentals tor
single tenants vary from, $6.50 to SB.BB. depending on when tenants have entered rhe flats —new tenants pay' the present scale immediately, while older tenants:
tjave their rents gradually raised towards the present scale—and present rentalsi for couples range from $7.50 :to $14.66.
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Press, 22 August 1978, Page 6
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