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After a fire, bed bugs “rain down from ceilings” into other apartments »

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 […]

Bowling Green Towers: residents organize to demand proper bed bug treatment in low-income building »

By nobugsonme on Mar 1, 2008 in Bowling Green, Kentucky Housing Corporation, bed bugs, bedbugs, disabled, disabled and bed bugs, elderly, elderly and bed bugs, kentucky, low-income housing, residents' association, tenant organizing | 1 Comment

Three weeks ago, building management of Bowling Green Towers — a low-income housing building in Bowling Green, Kentucky that houses elderly and disabled tenants whose rent is subsidized by the government (via HUD) — claimed the building had only “four” units infested with bed bugs. You can read an earlier story we did on […]