Category: public housingBy nobugsonme on Mar 25, 2008 in BC, BC Housing, british columbia, low-income housing, public housing, surrey, ted kuhn I, ted kuhn II | 4 Comments
Canada’s CTV reports that a BC Housing complex is infested with bed bugs. The article mentions Kuehn Tower, but the BC Housing site lists Ted Kuhn Tower I and II in Surrey, so this appears to be a typo. (Incidentally, I wonder if they found a new manager yet?)
Bill McLeod’s body is covered […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 14, 2008 in 55 Bleecker, Joe Fiorito, Toronto Community Housing, bed bug action committee, bed bugs, bed bugs in toronto, bedbugs, canada, journalists, ontario, public housing, tenant organizing, toronto | 1 Comment
If the Thai train infested with bed bugs does not have you thoroughly skeeved, Joe Fiorito has a new article today in the Toronto Star on 55 Bleecker, a Toronto Community Housing (public housing) building in Toronto, where tenants have meetings about bed bugs at 2 a.m. because they’re all up anyway.
2 a.m.!
That’s just the […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 30, 2007 in 311, Lexington, activism, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in colleges, bed bugs in schools, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, california, cincinnati, department of health, government response to bed bugs, how to eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, kentucky, low-income housing, marymount manhattan college, mayor bloomberg, new york city, new york city department of education, new york daily news, nyc, nyc dohmh, nyc housing and preservation department, nycdoe, ohio, public housing, san francisco, tenants and landlords | 15 Comments
The lead story in the “News” section of today’s New York Daily News is on bed bugs. That’s good: it’s always good to see bed bugs in the news.
It’s not a particularly helpful story, however.
For starters, there are inaccuracies. Let’s start with this caption below a photo of an adult bed bug:
Unfed […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 11, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, The Star, bed bug education, bed bug treatment, bedbugs, billings, florida, get rid of bed bugs, homeless, homeless shelter, how to get rid of bed bugs, low-income housing, mattresses, misinformation, montana, montana rescue mission, mosquitos, ontario, orlando, public housing, streets, tenants, throwing away mattresses, throwing stuff out, toronto, toronto community housing corporation, tossing out mattresses, tossing things out | 1 Comment
TheStar.com | Joe Fiorito updates us on prior bed bug story
“… when bedbugs spread to her apartment, and when the Toronto Community Housing Corporation could not respond to her complaints…, she booked a fumigator on her own and paid… to take care of the problem. She has now been reimbursed by TCHC.” This […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 13, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, Lexington, Toronto Community Housing, affordable housing, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, caulking, cincinnati, columbus, epidemic, erie, get rid of bed bugs, immigrants, immigrants and bed bugs, immigration, international travel, kentucky, low-income housing, ohio, ontario, pennsylvania, pesticide resistance, public housing, pyrethroid resistance, sealants, social services, spread, tenants, toronto, travel, treatment | 16 Comments
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 […]
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.
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By nobugsonme on Oct 5, 2007 in Halcyon House, SROs, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, cincinnati, colorado, costs, curbside, doctors and nurses, elderly, furniture, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, hotels, ignorance, illinois, institutions, kill them now we're doomed, low-income housing, motels, multi-unit buildings, ohio, public education, public health, public housing, rage, schools, shelters, signs and symptoms, slumlords, social services, spread, tenants, tools and weapons, tossing stuff out, treatment, usa, washington, washington DC | 6 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 26, 2007 in affordable housing, apartments, bed bugs, bedbugs, landlords, low-income housing, maine, multi-unit buildings, portland, public housing, spread, tenants, treatment, usa | 1 Comment
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 20, 2007 in 920 ouelette ave., apartments, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, clothing, government, landlords, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, ontario, public health, public housing, reinfestation, social services, tenants, treatment, treatment preparations, windsor | 0 Comments
More stories from large, infested buildings: this time, from 920 Ouellette Ave. in Windsor. The Windsor Star reports that John Fontaine, a 62-year old cab driver, is sleeping on his balcony in an attempt to avoid being bitten. It’s a tactic others have tried, though I am not certain it accomplishes much.
The Windsor-Essex […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 13, 2007 in affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, connecticut, low-income housing, mattresses, multi-unit buildings, new haven, news, prevention, public education, public housing, spread, tenants, treatment, usa | 3 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 23, 2007 in bed bug dog, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, connecticut, furniture, government, laundry, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, new haven, news, prevention, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public housing, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 0 Comments
More on the New Haven case described here on Friday.
A more recent article from News 8 in New Haven suggests that the
The infestation started in one unit and moved to 14 other apartments. The city paid for hotel rooms so the professionals could come in and steam clean room by room, bed by […]
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