Her home is infested with mice and rats. Mould grows in the bathroom, where water leaks and the floor sags. Tykiesha Lynn Morton has filed complaint after complaint but nothing's been done to help her and her three kids. Who's her landlord? The Nova Sco...
From left: Jeremiah Morton, Tykiesha Lynn Morton and Layanah Morton. The Halifax mom says she can no longer stand living in her public housing unit in Halifax's Uniacke Square. For more than a year, she says, she and her family have contended with a series of issues in the unit, including rodent and ant infestations. - Andrew RankinHALIFAX, N.S. — When Tykiesha Lynn Morton makes a sandwich for the kids, she pops the trunk of the car first.Morton points at three holes in her kitchen curtains.
The family lives in Halifax’s Uniacke Square, a row of public housing units owned by the Nova Scotia government. She applied to get a transfer to another unit. She was denied by The damage to the home was apparent. Morton also had photos of dead rats and pieces of clothing with holes chewed in them. Her daughter started getting sick in November. The rodent infestation was out of control, she said. Plus, she had a new infestation to worry about: carpenter ants. They were getting into children’s hair and her spice jars.
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