Common Sense Evicted from MA Elderly Housing

“The imminent chopping down of a crab-apple tree, to make way for a large trash bin, was the last straw,” writes Philip Shishkin of the Wall Street Journal in a report on efforts by elderly tenants of a Massachusetts subsidized apartment complex to redress “what they saw as excessive safety precautions” taken by the local housing agency.  When two of the tenants tethered themselves to the tree – which was slated for removal because another resident had fallen on uneven pavement near the trash bin’s original location – they were served with eviction notices.  Shishkin writes: “The eviction notices brought to a head more than a year of friction between the housing agency and tenants of Shrewsbury's Francis Gardens apartments, in a battle over cluttered patios, fire codes, an allegedly dangerous garbage bin, and who decides what's best for old people.”  » article 

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