Category: SROs
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 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 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 3, 2007 in FAQs, SROs, apartments, attached houses, bed bugs, bedbugs, condos, cooperatives, houses, landlords, multi-unit buildings, row houses, spread, treatment, treatment: single-family | 0 Comments
Often, people are embarrassed about dealing with bed bugs, and want to deal with their own infestation quietly and discreetly. Maybe they told the landlord before, and the problem was mishandled, eliminating the bed bugs for a short time, and the person wants to deal with things properly this time. Maybe they […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 28, 2007 in SROs, activism, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, dc, elderly, low-income housing, washington DC | 55 Comments
Omar Fekeiki reported in the Washington Post yesterday that the historic 117-room Phillis Wheatley YWCA at 901 Rhode Island Ave. NW in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington DC is infested with bed bugs, among other problems. (It’s not affiliated with the national YWCA.) The ladies who live there are now withholding rent.
Protesting residents […]
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