After fighting for repairs for almost 10 years, this Halifax tenant says the system is broken
Karen Crane's top-floor apartment is neatly furnished with a breathtaking view — but her living room looks like a construction site.
Crane's couches are covered with drop cloths and the floorboards have been pulled up throughout the living room, revealing the concrete slab. Under her patio door, a swath of drywall has been removed, exposing concrete, metal shards and protruding nails.
She says the unit has been in this condition for months, and issues have been recurring for years.
"I am an educated person … I'm a woman who has some resilience," Crane, 62, said in an interview. "But I'm broken down a little bit here, you know, I'm fading."
Crane, a registered nurse, said shortly after she moved into her apartment on Walter Havill Drive in Halifax's Armdale neighbourhood in the fall of 2015, she began noticing the heat wasn't working and sometimes the floor near the patio door was wet.
Then came full-blown flooding that covered the living room floor on multiple occasions.