By nobugsonme on Jul 15, 2007 in ABCDC, Allston-Brighton, SROs, VANDU, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, british columbia, canada, downtown eastside, furnishing bedbug-free homes, good ideas, government, hotels, low-income housing, massachusetts, mattresses, multi-unit buildings, public education, treatment, treatment in hotels, usa, vancouver | 8 Comments
Vancouver’s Radio CKNW (AM980) reports on their website Saturday:
Advocacy group fights bed bug outbreak
VANCOUVER - Community advocacy group the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users VANDU is trying to fight a massive outbreak of bedbugs in that city’s Downtown Eastside by gutting infested rooms.
The group’s Anne Livingston says residents have had six weeks notice to [...]
By nobugsonme on Jun 18, 2007 in ABCDC, Allston-Brighton, activism, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, money, treatment | 0 Comments
According to this article in TownOnline, the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation has announced that its grants to people with bed bugs (to help pay for treatment) have run out for this fiscal year. Their program is state-funded, and they’re hoping for more funds.
The ABCDC is the only group in Massachusetts that helps people pay [...]
By parakeets on Jun 14, 2007 in ABCDC, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, boston, conferences, consumer, government, hotels, housing laws, information and help, landlords, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, professional advice, public education, spread, tools and weapons, travel, treatment | 17 Comments
I was able to go to the Second Greater Boston Bed Bug Conference yesterday, June 13, 2007. The sub-title was “Extermination and Legislation.” There were many people there, maybe 100 or more, from diverse areas such as government, public housing, inspection services, senior services, property managers and exterminators. They even had live [...]
By nobugsonme on Jun 7, 2007 in ABCDC, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, bombs, boston, conferences, doing your own pest control, foggers, government, illinois, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new mexico, new york, news, social services, spread, tenants, usa, workplace | 4 Comments
A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). [...]
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