my odsp is going up 2.8% on july 1st, which i won't get until my august 1st check. i think. that's what it was last year. that will amount to about $40.
conversely, as inflation has been hovering around 1% from june 2024 to may 2025, my rent increase on june 1, 2026 should only be about 1%, which will be about $12. the immediate $40/month bump will only be taken down by $10 or so on june 1st next year, and that $40/month will definitely help. a lot. when you're poor, small amounts make a big difference, they're not throwaway pocket change.
i should be able to convince my doctor to fill out the disability forms for an extra $200/month, although i'm being cautious about this. this amount was supposed to be more widely distributed and for a much higher amount, but the randians in the liberal party got their hands on the legislation and largely ruined it. it's being approached the way it was intended to be by doctors, who are purposefully abusing it in order to react to the financial realities facing disability recipients in this country. we need the cash. that should be within a few months, max. the problem is that the forms are pretty intense, in terms of what you're asking a doctor to fill out. i don't have difficulty dressing myself or eating by myself, but i do have a lot of problems with ptsd-linked trauma, and i may be able to play that angle. am i being stalked or am i hearing things?
i don't think i've been drugged for a few weeks, and i haven't heard the male voices in that time period, although the female seems to still be here. i have blood recs and am waiting until i think they get me again before i go to the blood lab. the key indicator is stomach hair (i have never grown any hair on my stomach at all previously, before or after hormones, and it thankfully immediately clears up when their drugs metabolize. it's just about the most revoltingly disgusting thing imaginable, regardless of gender identity decisions. there is no possible explanation for this disgusting, unwanted change other than that i've been drugged with steroids or testosterone.), which i haven't noticed. as soon as i do notice stomach hair, i'm off to the blood lab to get the key evidence to convict these fucking losers with.
i could tell the last time i talked to him that he's having difficulty processing what i'm telling him, which i understand. i need the physical evidence to convince people. if we were to switch places, i'd be just as skeptical. the cops should be willing to investigate on a complaint and generate evidence, but a doctor needs to get the evidence and needs to be evidence based and should be skeptical about entertaining fantasies without evidence. the blood rec is extremely important, but i have to wait until they drug me again first, if i want to catch them, and they seem to understand what's going on and are waiting. if i can use that to get the doctor to fill out the disability forms, great. in the short run, it's in my self-interest to have him think i'm crazy.
that would also wipe out my remaining student loan, if he filled them out.
inflation should go up soon as well, as a result of the tariffs. i saw orange juice at the store yesterday for $12/jug, which is 100% inflation, due to tariffs. tropicana had better figure something out, because that's not going to sell. if the inflation rate for june 2025-may 2026 is in the 3-4% range overall, the increase on july 1, 2026 should be in the 5% range, which would be about $70. my odsp increases are not capped by legislation.
rent increases are capped by legislation; the rent inflation for 2027 will likely be capped at 2.5% by legislation, which would be about $30 on june 1, 2027. so that $70/month bump on aug 1, 2026 will only be taken down by $30 on june 1, 2027, leaving me with a remaining $40 + whatever the increase is on july 1, 2027, which should be 3%ish minimum and over $40 minimum, meaning i'll get it back almost immediately, and then some, at least another $10 and probably more than that.
however, i'm not going to predict inflation in 2027 at this point. i'll just point out that, year over year, rent goes up by 2.5% max, and odsp will go up by 2.5% min. the minimal inflation this year still resulted in a 2.8% boost. that means my disposable income increases every year i'm here, until i sign a new lease, which i hope ends up being for less (and will be if the tariffs devastate southern ontario).
a lot of disability advocates might not fully understand how powerful this is, but i do. it is true that it doesn't help right now and a lot of people need help right now, but it will balance out over time for people that can stabilize their housing. i've been explaining for years that the major problem is rent, and the solution is to lower rent or stabilize rent costs. the rest will work itself out, if you can actually get disabled people in stable housing and keep them there.
the assholes that bought my house to throw me out and got lucky with horrible and corrupt judges are facing a number of legal actions that they're going to need to pay for, as well. they are refusing to settle, which is just going to hike their costs in the long run. they think they got away with something, but they didn't, they just increased their own bills in the long run. i'll be better off in the new apartment in the long run, as i have more space and it's closer to downtown, which is where i want to be.
that said, the fact that i was paying $800/month in the previous apartment and might be looking at a monthly income of close to $1700/month by the fall is something to ponder. that $900/month for groceries, gear and concerts would have been great, if i wasn't dealing with asshole stalkers that need to go to jail and shithead landlords that need to pay me out. the best scenario is that i stay here and they pay me what it cost to get me here, and that could very well happen in the next few weeks, via one action or another.
there's a t2 in motion that asks for my rent back because they spent two years harassing me to leave; this amounts to about $20,000. the eviction is in appeal, and awaiting case management direction, which essentially has to determine if the possibility of compensation is substantive or not (and it clearly is), given that i'm not moving back into the old apartment. if i win this, they should be ordered to pay me what it cost to move, which would be about $6500, and possibly also pay me a year or two worth of the difference in rent, which would be upwards of another $10,000. there is a t5 coming in the next few days, which would be for the rent difference, and upwards of $10,000. altogether, it could run close to $50,000, but t probably won't. i should aim for $10,000 each, for a max of $30,000.
yes, they deserve to be ordered to pay this kind of compensation, as the eviction had no legitimate legal basis to it, but was ordered by a retarded religious person operating strictly on jewish moral principles, which have no legal force in this country. i do not intend to allow myself to have some judeo-christian moral principles enforced on me, as i reject them thoroughly, and expect the court system to uphold my right to live in a christian-free society, in the end, even if i have to take it to a few levels up to get there. canada is a secular society and people have the right to live free of religion within it. i demand the courts uphold that right, and they will in the end.