Category: housing laws
By nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2007 in Huffington Post, Nicholas Brown, apartments, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, dealing with bed bugs, disclosure, get rid of bed bugs, housing laws, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, landlord knew, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, living with bed bugs, new york, nyc, pest control, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, tenants, treatment, usa | 4 Comments
There’s a new update to Nicholas Brown’s bed bug journal on the Huffington Post today, and it takes us through the 39th day of living with bed bugs during treatment.
In this installment, we learn that bed bugs are taking a significant toll on Brown’s self-identity and social life:
Despite my anger, even our bug-laden living situation […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 10, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, Lexington, The Star, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and the elderly, bedbugs, best practices, canada, education, elderly, government response to bed bugs, health, health department, homelessness, housing laws, how to kill bed bugs, journalist, journalists, kentucky, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, ontario, pest control, public education, public health, public housing, social services, spread, toronto, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 0 Comments
LEX18 - Lexington, KY: Health Department Encourages Learning About Bed Bugs
“The Kentucky Department for Public Health is encouraging people to learn more about bed bugs, the small, brownish insects that feed on the blood of animals.” Paradoxically, this article contains almost no content or explanation of how they’ll do that.
(tags: bedbugs kentucky lexington KY […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 14, 2007 in 311, Brooklyn, apartments, bed bug registries, bed bugs, bedbugs, bushwick, forums, government, housing laws, itchy hipsters, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, paralysis, slumlords, spread, stories, tales of bed bug woe, tenants, treatment, usa | 15 Comments
Welcome to Brooklyn
Originally uploaded by TheGirlsNY
Bushwick, Brooklyn is home to two large dueling loft buildings: 248 and 255 McKibben Street. Yes, that’s right: they’re buildings so hip, fun, and now, they have their own myspace pages. (Don’t laugh, but we have one too.)
Gawker […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 7, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, flea market, furniture, good ideas, government, health, history, hotels, housing laws, mattresses, motels, new york, nyc, ohio, prevention, public education, public health, secondhand, spread, stories, tenants, usa, used furniture | 3 Comments
We’ve been following the bed bug situation in Cincinnati for a while.
Yesterday, Joe Wessels of the Cincinnati Post reported that city officials were forming a commission to fight the problem:
The Bedbug Remediation Commission, a five-member panel of local health, social service and elected leaders, is in the process of forming and will try […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 1, 2007 in bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, government, halifax, housing laws, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, nova scotia, spread, tenants | 2 Comments
A new article on Halifax, Nova Scotia’s bed bug epidemic, appeared in the Chronicle Herald Friday.
According to the CBC.ca Marketplace website:
In Nova Scotia, Halifax doesn’t have clear-cut legislation for dealing with bedbugs. Responsibility for extermination falls upon the tenant if a landlord can prove a tenant brought the bugs in. The Halifax agency has found […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 29, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, curbside, detection, dumpster diving, flea market, government, history, housing laws, landlords, legal, misinformation | 6 Comments
I always rant and rave about the absurdity of New York City officials basing their statistics of the incidence of bed bugs in NYC on the number of people who call 311 to report bed bugs as a housing violation.
Here is my rant on NYC statistics, for those who have not read it […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 26, 2007 in 311, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, detection, government, housing laws, landlords, new york, nyc, photos of mattresses, signs and symptoms, tenants, usa | 17 Comments
As New Yorkers know, if you have bed bugs in NYC, you have the option of calling 311 (the city information hotline) and filing a complaint about bed bugs in your rental unit. An inspector from the Housing and Preservation Department (HPD) will come to your home to inspect. More on that in a […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 7, 2007 in SROs, activism, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, canada, good ideas, hotels, housing laws, low-income housing, news, slumlords, social services, vancouver | 2 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 4, 2007 in North Plank Development Co., activism, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, elderly, hope, hotels, housing laws, landlords, low-income housing, monticello, multi-unit buildings, new york, organizing tenants, slumlords, tenants, usa | 3 Comments
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. […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 22, 2007 in FAQs, bed bugs, bedbugs, housing laws, landlords, lawsuits, legal, new york, tenants, treatment, usa | 12 Comments
I just revised the Tenants and Landlords FAQ. I hope everyone who uses this site or the forums will re-read the NYC information (long as it is) because it corrects some misconceptions a lot of us have about the law here.
While the FAQ has always been clear that there are […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 21, 2007 in American Housing Preservation Corp, Halcyon House, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, colorado, denver, disabled, elderly, housing laws, multi-unit buildings, paralysis, treatment, usa | 2 Comments
Thanks to Hopelessnomo for the link.
Rocky Mountain News Service has an article today by a journalist whose friend Steve is a quadriplegic living in Halcyon House, with bed bugs. It may be the worst thing I’ve read about bed bugs, period. The building has all kinds of other problems, which are horrific in […]
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 […]
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