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Seattle Housing Authority’s bed bug treatment #FAIL
The Stranger has a new article on the rise of bed bugs in Seattle. What struck me most was its grim view of a bedbugged future, where we just give up and accept our fate of living with bed bugs. Both...
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Ottawa man refuses bed bug treatment eight times, finally evicted
Christopher Francoeur was evicted from 415 MacLaren St. in Ottawa, after refusing to have his apartment in the infested 249-unit building treated for bed bugs. The Ottawa Citizen reports that According...
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Bed bugs in Toronto public housing
Joe Fiorito has a new story in the Toronto Star today about Bill Huddlestone, who suffers from bed bugs in his Toronto Community Housing apartment on Lawrence at Morningside. To say Huddlestone has a...
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Bed bugs win; 219 tenants moved from Fort Worth Housing Authority building
An entire Fort Worth Housing Authority building in Fort Worth, Texas has been battling bed bugs for a year — a process that has cost about 1/2 a million dollars. And now every single one of the 219...
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Bed bugs in Toronto public housing: the city does not have it together
When it comes to bed bugs, many folks have the idea that Toronto has its act together. Why? Because it has a task force (the Toronto Bed Bug Project), initiatives like Bug and Scrub, a Public Health...
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Public housing tenants living with bed bugs for 3.5 years
Remember the Connie Griffith / Ballard Towers, in Lexington, Kentucky? In November, 2008, we told you that some of the complex’s public housing tenants had been suffering with bed bugs for two years....
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Bed bugs halt mail service to Detroit public housing building
A Detroit mail carrier stopped delivering to a 143-unit Warren West Apartments due to the building’s bed bug problem. Unfortunately, it happened at the time in the month when many of the building’s...
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Bed bugs in Easton, PA Department of Public Welfare office and public housing...
The Department of Public Welfare office in Easton, Pennsylvania is the latest location in the town to become infested with bed bugs. WFMZ Allentown reports that the State of Pennsylvania has reopened...
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Bed bug-infested mattress set on fire by NYCHA cleaner
Don’t try this at home! The Daily News reported yesterday that Miriam Ortiz, a cleaner who works in the New York City Housing Authority’s Manhattanville houses has been charged with arson, after...
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Housing Authority of New Haven to purchase heat treatment technology
The Housing Authority of New Haven is planning to use Temp-Air heating technology to treat bed bugs in public housing, with the ambitious goal of entirely eliminating bed bugs from all public housing...
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