junctionist
Senior Member
There are indeed developments. The old informal dirt path by the tracks has been fenced off and cleared of vegetation. Construction has thus commenced on the first phase.
Her next-door neighbours vacated their house months ago, as did all the other tenants who lived on a block of houses on Bloor St. W., facing High Park and stretching around the corners of Pacific Ave. and Oakmount Rd. Almost a century old, the homes are destined for destruction because the property managers deemed them not worth the money it would take to repair them.
"I would have been out of here years ago," Sepp says, sitting by her roommate Peter Haynes. "But I have nowhere to go."
The pair's gruelling quest to find a new home has little to do with affording rent while living on disability and welfare payments as they do. It has everything to do with their severe multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), where exposure to minute quantities of chemicals provokes harsh physical reactions.