Toronto Mayor John Tory is promising to address safety concerns at a TCHC complex in the city’s west end after a bedroom ceiling recently collapsed seriously injuring a female tenant.
Toronto Mayor John Tory is promising to address safety concerns at a public housing complex in the city’s west end after a bedroom ceiling recently collapsed seriously injuring a female tenant.
“If we leave people in there, we don’t know,” Robin Smith said, adding all 400 or so residents were told last week that they’d have to vacate their units for shoring work and engineering tests that would be done throughout the complex. He called the recent situation at Swansea Mews “very worrisome” and said the city will look into what happened.
Parkdale-High Park Coun. Gord Perks, whose west-end riding includes the area where the complex is located, said what has happened at Swansea Mews is “incredibly disruptive.” He said the city is working with local schools boards to ensure displaced children finish the last few weeks of the year and that tenants have all of their basic needs met.
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