Residents frustrated over broken elevator at Edmonton seniors housing complex – Edmonton [Video]

Tenants living at Porta Place, an Edmonton seniors housing complex, were left on a sour note during the holidays. Their only elevator broke down, impacting accessibility, and leaving dozens stranded on their floors.

Barry Dove lives at Porta Place. The building is an independent seniors building owned by the Alberta Social Housing Corporation and managed by GEF Seniors Housing.

Dove says he’s been climbing up and down the staircase from his third-floor unit because the elevator has been broken for over a week.

“I had to go to many Christmas dinners. I was up and down the stairs 100 times. It’s been terrible,” he said.

Dove worries for other tenants living at the complex after suffering a fall in the stairwell.

“People can’t get down. There are sick people here. There’s people 80, 90 years old,” he explained.

“I’m probably best in shape here and it’s affected me terribly. There was one time I collapsed because I was so …