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Cincinnati fights bed bugs, declares some success »

Cincinnati held a meeting yesterday about bed bugs. Channel 9 (ABC) said yesterday:
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority will show the Health, Environment and Education Committee a presentation on the pests.
Officials said bed bugs are a big problem in the city’s public housing, which is overseen by the Housing Authority.
According to Channel 12, Cincinnati politicians […]

Ventura County motel closure makes many families homeless at Christmas »

Catholic Charities is one group trying to help those displaced when the Traveler’s Beach Inn was shut down due to bed bugs and electrical problems, the Ventura County Star reported Saturday.
The week before Christmas and raining, to boot, some 14 families were tipped out of a Ventura inn because of electrical hazards and an infestation […]

bed bugs in Greenpoint (NYC), Stamford (CT), Glenwood Springs (CO), and the Internets (.com) »

Slightly delayed news round-up:
newyorkshitty.com » ‘Tis The Season: Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite!
miss heather of newyorkshitty.com shares a current photo of suspected bed bug refuse at the Astral Apartments in Greenpoint, and shares an article from exactly 121 years ago, decrying the need for “quality affordable housing”, free of vermin.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Valley […]

a bed bug story from Hawai’i; Fagerlund on aerosol bombs and pesticides »

Hawai’i: Kamehameha housing project infested with bed bugs
“Eight people share a two-bedroom apartment in Leslie’s family. . . . Recently, they had to get rid of three beds and a sofa infested by bedbugs — ‘My kids were eaten alive!’ Most of them have been sleeping on the floor until donated beds arrive, but ‘we
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bed bug news for 2007-11-14 »

TheStar.com | Battling bedbugs is not easy: Joe Fiorito talks to Steve Floros of Toronto Community Housing:
This is a public housing official: “We have a program of unit refurbishment. We’re spending $75 million over three years to upgrade kitchens and bathrooms; we want to seal every crack so there isn’t free ability of the pests […]

More from Cincinnati: senior housing complex »

According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]

Portland’s public housing and bed bugs »

According to WCSH6.com, Bed bugs are spreading in Greater Portland (Maine).
The brief article describes how Raymond Leavitt sees “dozens of bed bugs” at night in his Portland apartment.
Officials with the Portland Housing Authority, who oversee Franklin Towers where Raymond lives, say bed bugs are a problem in most of their properties.
They say they […]

New Haven housing officials confused: why can’t they get rid of these bed bugs? »

When we first heard part of New Haven’s Crawford Manor public housing was infested with bed bugs, housing officials were taking the infestations seriously (good) but also moving tenants from infested home to local hotels and then other apartments (not good), and also rushing to blame a woman who carries her belongings around and has […]

New Haven: another housing complex has bed bugs »

We recently reported the rise of bed bugs in the Crawford Manor apartments and the University of Bridgeport, both in New Haven, CT. Now another housing complex, Essex Townhouses, is infested, as reported by WTNH.com. The article focuses on Kathyrn Abreu, 73, and her daughter Kathyrn Yukness. The mother, Abreu, says,

“I lost […]

Vancouver Downtown Eastside Residents ask politicians to swap homes with them »

Chantal Eustace of the Vancouver Sun reported Friday that
VANCOUVER - City councillors aren’t jumping at a chance to swap their homes with a group of women living in poverty in the squalid Downtown Eastside.
Eight of 10 city councillors who reflected on an eight-week housing challenge put forth by the Power of Women Group in […]

A tale of another city: Monticello, NY low-income tenants 1, slumlord 0 »

The Times Herald-Record reports today that a Monticello, NY building was seriously infested with bed bugs and had other code violations. In some ways, it was similar to Denver’s Halcyon House, in that the residents don’t have much money, and they were being made to live under inhumane conditions, in violation of housing codes. […]

More bad news about Denver’s bed bug-infested Halcyon House »

The bed-bug-infested building which houses mostly elderly and disabled tenants in Denver, Halcyon House, was in the news again today.
Ivan Moreno reports for the Rocky Mountain News that the court date finally arrived; the owners sent an attorney to represent them (they’re in Maine), and they were fined $41 for “failing to spray […]