Family of Verdun senior facing eviction pleading for help
Global News
A senior woman living in Verdun is making an emotional appeal to authorities to increase protections for tenants after the city gave her 72 hours to vacate her home of many years.
A senior woman living in Verdun is making an emotional appeal to authorities to increase protections for tenants.
This after the city gave her 72 hours to vacate her home of many years.
Li Rong Qiu, 69, is inconsolable.
She fears she will be evicted from the only home she’s known in Canada, after she moved from China more than a decade ago.
The city issued an evacuation notice on Monday, giving her until Wednesday to leave her home on Rielle Street in Verdun, because the building is deemed unsafe, without heating.
Her apartment building was recently sold and has been under renovations for the past few months, .
“For these nine months, my mother has experienced totally torture,” her daughter Jing Zeng said.
Zen says the new owners demolished the mechanical room and cut the heating.
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