Tenants said they’re facing down the deadline with very few options.
“It’s a nightmare,” said John Bradley, a River Place tenant. “It’s been one thing after another and now we’re all basically on the street.”
It is so unfortunate that it has come to this
Some of the building’s residents, including Bradley, had moved to River Place from “tent city,” the encampment in the city’s downtown core disbanded by officials late last year. Bradley said he had been living at River Place in his own room since then and had initially been hopeful it was a chance to change his life.
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Publishing date: Jul 15, 2021 • 10 hours ago • 5 minute read • Sarah Hodgkins, a resident at River Place at 245 Detroit St., in Old Sandwich Town, takes a look into the men s community bathroom on Thursday, July 15, 2021. The City of Windsor issued a Prohibition of Occupancy Order and all residents must be out of the building by July 20. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
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“Unliveable, unliveable” conditions from unusable toilets and no running water to feces on the floors and fire alarms ripped from the walls have forced the City of Windsor to pull the plug on a sprawling dorm-like building with dozens of tenants and an unknown number of squatters.
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