Saskatoon affordable housing resident says there’s been a mouse infestation for years
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Dominika Kosowska lives in an affordable housing apartment in Saskatoon, and says she's been dealing with pests for the past four years.
Dominika Kosowska says she’s been hearing scratching coming from her walls since 2018, and things have only gotten worse.
Kosowska lives in an affordable housing apartment in Saskatoon run by the Saskatoon Housing Authority (SHA). She says she’s been dealing with rodents for years.
“When I moved here in 2018 I lived in the apartment down below, number 30, and around winter I heard scratching in the walls and I started questioning that. So when I brought it up to (SHA) attention their comment was ‘maybe you’re hearing things’,” Kosowska claimed.
“It’s gotten really bad, the intensity of scratching. I think there’s 16 or 18 holes everywhere in the walls that I spend my Sundays trying to plug so they don’t come out. There’s mouse traps everywhere, sticky pads, like poison. That’s all they give me from Sask. housing.”
She said she moved from her first unit in 2019 into another one in the same building, but said that didn’t help.
“Nobody comes here and actually deals with the root cause,” Kosowska claimed.
“I sit here at night and I have a mouse or a rat zooming through the living room, or the bedroom, or on my toes.”
She claims SHA told her to call maintenance, and all they do is set more traps.