As people gather with family and friends over the holidays, some tenants of a subsidized housing building in Kelowna, B.C., say they have been scattered and forgotten after their homes were deemed unsafe due to ground settling linked to a UBC Okanagan construction site just metres away.
When Hadgraft Wilson Place opened 18 months ago, it was intended as a permanent home for individuals with low incomes and physical or mental disabilities.
It is owned and operated by Pathways Abilities Society, a non-profit organization that supports people with diverse needs.
Now, the five-story building stands fenced off and empty, showing visible cracks in its walls inside and out, after Kelowna’s fire chief ordered an evacuation and deemed it unsafe to live in.
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Displaced tenants call for work to stop at UBC construction site
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Evacuation of Kelowna, B.C., apartment near construction site extended for 2 weeks
The damage began appearing in …