Drew Barnes is Alberta’s MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat. He is also the owner of First Choice Property Management, which owns several rental properties in Medicine Hat and around the province.

A recent story by Press Progress featured a tenant of Barnes named Dustin, who was facing the threat of eviction mere days after a COVID-related ban on evictions had concluded. The story ends positive for Dustin, as the eviction threat was pulled back and the company suggested it would work with its tenant on a rental plan that worked for Dustin.

On our first episode of The Forgotten Corner: Just Us, we take a look at the broader concept of mass property ownership and the problems we have with someone earning large profits off people’s need to have a roof over their head. Join us for a half-hour chat and ask yourself one question: Shouldn’t housing be an essential right shared by all?

Read Press Progress’s story here:

https://pressprogress.ca/ucp-mla-drew-barnes-company-has-stopped-threatening-a-struggling-tenant-with-eviction/

A little more about Jared Kushner’s appearance in Netflix series Dirty Money:

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/03/dirty-money-jared-kushner-slumlord-netflix-1202216998/amp/