Comments on: More bad news about Denver’s bed bug-infested Halcyon House

By: bugbasher

bugbasher — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:22:35 +0000

This is so shameful! Where are the groups to stand up for these disabled people? A good tenant advocate group needs to step in if there’s no one else who gives a d**m.I started crying when I read things like this,it only reinforces my fear that no one actually cares about anyone.I was on a web site to save wolves the other day and they have a whole legal team??? While our elderly and disabled get eaten alive by bb’s??? There’s something very,very wrong with our priorites.

By: Bowling Green Towers: another infestation in elderly and disabled housing

Bowling Green Towers: another infestation in elderly and disabled housing — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:40:20 +0000

[…] is another situation of bed bugs spreading in housing for the elderly and disabled. Remember Halcyon House in Denver? The Hillrise Apartment Building in Cincinnati? Warren Towers in Moline, Illinois? The […]

By: parakeets

parakeets — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:46:10 +0000

At the bedbug conference I met a woman involved in property management in a senior citizens complex in Worcester MA. She was incredibly caring about their tenants. She raised many issues about the need for education of tenants about bedbugs and the need for immediate response and appropriate action by management companies.

There is the pressing problem of treating the bedbugs now, but there is the long-term problem of keeping them from returning. The more tenants in a building, the more likely you are to get re-infested. With seniors there are so many additional issues. Many senior buildings have tenants who are immuno-compromised due to chemotherapy and they can’t be exposed to chemical treatments. Some buildings are using heat treatment, but that is expensive and again, won’t prevent re-infestation. I don’t want to live in multi-unit housing ever again.

By: James Buggles

James Buggles — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:55:33 +0000

The state should declare eminent domain and take ownership of the building. I’d be happy to see my tax dollars used to fumigate the building with vikane gas. After that, strict rules on what tenants can bring into the building.

Let’s face it — there’s no one slimier in this world than landlords. They make used car salesmen seem like saints.