Toronto Community Housing says the ceiling fault may date back to the 1970s as it moves to evacuate 400 residents of Swansea Mews. Residents say the buildings have been in disrepair for years.
When Nasra Ahmed learned from her distraught children that a ceiling had collapsed on a sleeping neighbour at their Toronto public housing complex, she started packing.
The decision, which TCH began sharing with residents on Tuesday, has upended about 400 lives at the complex just west of High Park. TCH says the root cause of the collapse is believed to date back to the building’s construction in the late 1970s. Many residents, however, are pointing a finger at long-term neglect, and a system that allowed their community to crumble for years.
“We are strongly committed to bringing all our buildings to a state of good repairs to improve living conditions and quality of life for tenants; however, for many years TCHC has had to contend with historic underfunding for building capital repairs.” With many public housing complexes across Toronto sinking into disrepair at the time, officials pointed to a lack of funding to fix them up. The federal and provincial governments downloaded responsibility for community housing onto the city decades ago, which left the buildings underfunded. By 2017, some foundations and walls crumbled so badly that city hall voted to close the homes and relocate the tenants.
The schedule of how funds were used was up to TCH, Afarian said, while the repair situation at Swansea Mews “should have never gotten to this point in the first place.”
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