VANCOUVER—
A rickety plastic folding chair is everything waiting for the elderly between the 7 th and 8 th floors of Solheim square, which is a non-
Profit apartment building in Vancouver Chinatown.
However, this slightly buckled black seat has become an important resting place for many disabled residents in the building, as it is the only elevator leading to the sixth and ninth floors above
Floor buildings have been broken for nearly seven months.
In an interview with the star in French, Michelle Geling, 63, said: "It's terrible, it's always the case . ".
He lived in the building for 14 years, using an electric wheelchair.
"It's so important to let people know what's going on here.
"These guys wouldn't do anything if the world didn't know. S. U. C. C. E. S. S.
Their management issues need to be addressed here.
"Since the highly respected Vancouver charity promised to fix the broken lifeline of residents who could not manage 48 steps to reach the last working elevator, it has been 200 days and only reached the fifth floor
Even it rings the bell and sometimes stands. The award-
The award-winning charity manages about 600 affordable housing units in Vancouver, Richmond and bennaby.
Solheim square on Union Street
, Including 86 apartments, all for rent-gearned-to-
No one pays more than income.
Most are reserved for the elderly and persons with disabilities living independently.
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Housing workers in Vancouver are priced as "we are still committed to working with all interested parties to repair the elevators in Solheim square in the most timely manner possible, the organization said in a statement posted on its website. “S. U. C. C. E. S. S.
Recognize and deeply sympathize with the impact of elevator failures on our tenants over the past few months, especially since many are elderly and/or disabled.
"Unfortunately, the modernization of any elevator is usually a complicated and long process.
On the eighth floor, the stars found a hand --
A copy signature with the words "disorder.
"Building Notice from Sept.
Announced on the 26 th-
The elevator on the floor is broken, but it needs to be fixed.
Another notice posted above
On March 2018, the floor elevator door issued a conference advertisement to update the tenant's situation, and the charity said it had held regular meetings with residents to hear their opinions and needs.
About 50 residents of the building decided on Saturday on the firstfloor lobby.
For some of the rallies that are mainly Chinese seniors, this is their first --
Been demonstrating.
One of them was Jin Tang, 80, who described another old woman living in Solheim, who lived in a wheelchair on the sixth floor and had to climb out of her wheelchair, up and down the stairs to the fifth --
Elevator on working floor.
"She had to stand up from her chair and climb the stairs step by step," Tang told the media in Cantonese through a translator.
"She had to stop every step in order to catch her breath --
She really climbed the stairs on the floor.
"How long is this elevator broken?
No one should walk every day if these stairs are elderly or sick.
No one understands what it feels like to live in a building like this, and no one understands the pain we suffer.
Tang told the Star that he moved from Hong Kong to Vancouver in 1968, loved Canada, lived with his wife Lily, and when he spoke to the crowd, he held a sign calling for elevator repairs in Chinese.
Nicolas Yung, 25, a volunteer at the Chinese tenant organization, has made friends with residents of buildings such as Kim and Lily Tang.
"A lot of my friends live in this building and they tell me when the elevator is broken for four months," Rong yung said in an interview with The Star newspaper.
"With them, we created a tenant group and tried to organize the building together.
For Guerin who moved into the building from another BC residence --
The elevator is just the latest test. what he wants is the public housing project. U. C. C. E. S. S.
Strengthen and change the way they manage their buildings.
The company said it had extended its staff's daily hours to 11. m.
To help the residents who carry things in the stairwell, put chairs on each floor for those who need rest, and provide the upper body
Floor tenants have the first chance to move to another BC Housing suite if they have an elevator.
The charity controlled the building for £ 60.
Rented a year from the government's BC Housing Agency a few years ago.
He showed the star the digital display that broke in the wheelchair and it was difficult to read the settings and controls on the display.
That was a sudden fall from the blinds on his unit window, breaking the screen --
But the manager took a few days to fix it, only after his friend helped pull the big blinds downstairs and show them.
However, the most serious incident occurred four years ago.
He fell from his wheelchair and could not move.
He said that although he often walked past the manager's office from the building, no one noticed his absence or checked him until five days.
Another resident heard him shouting.
"I have to drink my own urine," he told the Star . ".
"My doctor said that's why I'm alive.
I shouted for a few days.
"We are not asking for poverty --
We just need respect. ”David P.
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