Last 2 tenants in a gutted Hamilton apartment building are left without heat | CBC News
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Jennifer McGrath says she just wants a nice Christmas.
Her cozy apartment in Hamilton’s Durand neighbourhood is decorated for the holiday with stockings, lights and a tree. But step outside McGrath’s unit and the rest of the low-rise building she lives in is decidedly less festive.
Windows are boarded up. The front door doesn’t lock. And Canada Post stopped delivering mail in August.
In the dank hallways McGrath sees exposed concrete, brick and plumbing, some of which leaks into puddles.
Other than McGrath and her neighbour, Rick MacMillan, the building on Duke Street is empty. Other tenants left gradually over the last two years, they say, and now their landlord wants them gone, too. But they’re staying to fight the eviction.
“If you want to fix my floors, put in new cupboards, put in new appliances, redo my bathroom, that’s fine with me,” McGrath said. “As long as I stay here at the same rate.”
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