'If I have no choice, I'm going to have to live in my car': Tenants fight to stay in Ottawa apartment building
CTV
Tenants who are being evicted from their 16-storey apartment building on Richmond Road are banding together, holding a rally on Saturday, outside the place they call home.
Tenants who are being evicted from their 16-storey apartment building on Richmond Road are banding together, holding a rally on Saturday, outside the place they call home.
"I work part time and I go to school, if I'm not able to maintain this price, I just can't do it," said Paul, a tenant who only wanted to use his first name.
"If I have no choice, I'm going to have to live in my car," said another tenant, Nelda Giroux.
More than 50 tenants are fighting to stay in their units, after the building's new owner handed them eviction notices last month.
"There was a day last week when I was just laying on my couch, balled up and I could not get up and I could not function," said tenant Sue Simard.
Many of the tenants, including Simard, pay below market value for rent and say they can't afford to go anywhere else.
Richmond Road Management did not respond to our request for comment, but previously told CTV News Ottawa the evictions are necessary in order to renovate the 50-year-old building.
