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“It’s been really devastating,” said Tom Kershaw, a 72-year-old who has lived in the building for nine and a half years. “It’s just been overwhelming, the stress.” Kershaw pays $590 a month for a ground-floor bachelor suite and would likely have to pay double that for a new place. “We’re looking at a zero per cent vacancy rate and we’re in a pandemic,” he said. Tenant Linda Hanson, 56, said several of the suites have been empty for months, so she wonders why the landlord did not start renovating those while they were vacant. “I just feel, and I think more tenants feel, it’s really not the right time to be evicting people,” said Hanson, who has lived in the building for 15 years and pays $740 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. ....