Recovery centre tenants uprooted, forced out of homes [Video]

After less than six months, families living in a southern Winnipeg condominium development are being forced to move out.

Twenty-three of 24 units in the West Building at 873 Waverley St. are owned by Aurora Recovery Centre (ARC), a facility that helps those with addiction issues carve a path to sobriety. The complex, known as the Aurora Reunification Village, was created to reconnect mothers with their children while in recovery.

But now, that village is being taken down.

CTV News spoke to a tenant who asked to not be identified because she is undergoing treatment.

“It’s sad because this is probably the safest place that some of us have ever experienced, and we’re not welcome,” she said. “It’s feeling victimized again, and now it’s feeling homeless again.

“It’s feeling uprooted. No safety, no stability.”

The tenant is one of 20 – including six children – that will have to vacate the premise, after a Manitoba judge issued a cease and desist order earlier this month.

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