Readers of the 91大黄鸭 Capital News Facebook page reacted to our story on kelownacapnews.com about .

Tara Dawn:

I don鈥檛 blame the landlords, their costs have gone up too. We live in a city with lots of low-paying jobs available and no one wanting to or able to work for those wages and no place to live on what the median incomes here are.

Wages can鈥檛 go up without small businesses going under, property and interest rates are up so it costs more for homeowners to keep their houses and pay their mortgages, and it鈥檚 a seemingly endless cycle with no solutions being proposed by leadership at a the civic level or anywhere else. The only solution is to escape but we鈥檙e all trapped here in poverty to even do that. It鈥檚 like the black hole over here.

Debra Sawarin:

I blame the landlords somewhat. Some of them feel that their basement suite rental should cover the cost of their mortgage for the whole house. I think the fact that rentals go for so much money to summer tourists has given some landlords unreasonable expectations.

Amanda Hewson:

B.C. will suck people dry, its taxes that kill. People are leaving BC for better opportunities. It鈥檚 sad.