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 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 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. […]
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