Submitted by "Steve" on 08/17/2010

My name is Steve Hayden, I moved in 200 Wellesley on February 2007, I am sick with AIDS, Casey house got me into the building as it is a low income building, I really had no choice, I live in 200 Wellesley or die on the street.
The apartment it’s self was a huge mess, full of garbage, used crack/drug supplies, booze bottles, shit all over the floor/walls, cockroaches, bedbugs, mice, pigeon shit, dead pigeon’s, vomit, the spirit of the old man dead body that crack heads killed before I moved in and more. My friend who is a police officer couldn’t even get the management office to clean it, he begged me with tears in his eyes not to move in, he told me he is here all the time many times a night to deal with the crack houses, crystal meth labs and killings regularly, I told him I have no choice, I wouldn’t feel right living with his wife and him, that weekend he came to my apartment with his wife and friends to clean everything.
My first real evening here he brought me dinner and a cell phone and told me to call him any time for anything even just to talk, I told him I will be fine and I am sure things aren’t as bad as he thinks. Then the 6:00pm news came on, it was about a guy who lived above the management office for years with an apartment full of animals with about 1000 pigeons flying in and out of his apartment windows, they were all his pets and they lived here, they also shit here and drove the neighbours nuts, the news video on the TV was unreal I never scene anything like that in my life, I wish I could show you the news video, but if you copy and paste the link below into your browser you can see the pigeon man on the left being taken out on a stretcher with public health and the humane society starting to clear his apartment.
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The refrigerator in the apartment would leek buckets of water daily, I told the management office about this and they would do nothing about it. I kept hearing this sparking noise all night and day, my friend told me it was the outlets in the apartment which I told building office about it, they looked at the outlets and heard the noise but they told me they couldn’t fix them because they still worked (at night I could see the sparks flying out of them and the breakers would shut off constantly because of this). My friend went to the hardware store and helped me change the outlets and switches in the apartment. If you live here you better have a friend with a bit of cash to help you do some maintenance, you could be a whore to get the money or sell drugs like some of the other tenants.
Living in the apartment I kept getting sick and I wouldn’t know why, I would go back to Casey house or a friends and get better, even with out medical help I would get better? Finally my nurse found out about others with AIDS that have died in the building because of bacteria, which builds up in the bottom of the fridge, she had public health test the water in the bottom of the refrigerator and it tested positive for this bacteria, it took public health, my nurse, the media, the police and the building tenant rep to get me a new refrigerator on Friday June 16, 2010. Can you believe that, 3 years to change one refrigerator that the TCHC knew it was killing me, in January I died 3 times in emergency because of this refrigerator that TCHC bought cheap in bulk because they didn’t work! Most of these refrigerators are still in other apartments, maybe my old one is in another apartment now! The main TCHC person in charge here is Nancy Evans she controls all of the south TCHC buildings, I am not sure what her position is but I believe it would be “serial killer” as she has killed many, try googling “Al Gosling” or TCHC deaths to read about her and TCHC buildings.
Now for the drug thing, this is the worst building I have ever scene in my life for drugs, if you sit in front of the building at night you can see this for your self, it’s not just crack it is all street drugs, prescription drugs even prescription drugs that you can not get in Canada or the USA only Mexico, if I miss the pharmacy for the weekend my nurse can actually find me my HIV medication in the building as well as heavy narcotics and pain killers in minutes!
But this is what bothers me the most, family’s move in this building with their young children, newborns being taken by there parents in and out of the building at 3am even in strollers, children seeing people doing drugs and whores doing tricks in the hallways and stair wells, kids playing in front of the building with crack pipes, used condoms, used syringes and broken glass, many times I have had a child’s parent come to my door and drug there child so I can pick pieces of glass out of there child’s body because they are afraid children’s aid will take there child away if they go to emergency because of the broken glass that is in the child from building management not cleaning the broken glass in the building. I had a broken window outside my apartment for 3 months before it was cleaned up!
In June I was taking my garbage out at 6am and what did I find in the garbage shoot, a child, yes a child, I found a fucken living kid in the garbage shoot! I heard him yelling help and when I opened the door I seen two little feet with a kid screaming I’m going to fall, I pulled the kid out he was covered in blood and garbage! I was in shock for days after this happened, after it happened I told the build management about it, they really acted like they didn’t care one bit about it, but I found out an hour later the management was steam cleaning the child’s blood off the garbage shoot, like the mafia would do after a killing! The garbage shoots were broken almost on every floor, the safety latch on the shoot’s were broken so one could almost throw a horse down the shoot! All I wanted was the main door to these shoot’s locked but the building said, “We can not do that because tenants will not be able to throw their garbage out?” I called everywhere, the police, every city number I could find and then Pam McConnell’s office, they said they would send an inspector right away, I kept looking to see if it was locked, but no, so I would call again and again Pam’s office would say they are looking into it, 4 days later nothing! (Let me tell you this is really not the person to vote for!) Then I spoke with a reporter from the Toronto Star, after the article came out in the paper the garbage shoots were locked and then fixed at 3am in the morning! 3AM GET THAT! The management then tried to blame everyone in the building, when it was the management that almost killed this child like the others they have killed. When I spoke to this reporter he could see I was disturbed about the whole thing, I seen him again about a week ago and I can see that he is now disturbed about the things TCHC has done and are still doing! It is sad that this reporter is the only one that can get things done around here but I am grateful for what he has done.
You may read the article with the link below.
http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/828052--fiorito-something-stinks-in-public-housing
If your child doesn’t get killed in the building, he or she will surely get killed in the area outside the building, have a look for your self.
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There are many tenants with mental issues in this building, but most are harmless but there is one tenant “Judy” in 2414, she loves to drink and when she does she just snaps, her balcony is above the main entrance of the building 24 floors up she throws dishes glassware, food, non alcoholic beverages, empty bottles, gardening supplies, bricks, cat shit and really anything she can find. I have told the management office about this and again they do nothing when there is much they can do to stop this.
A. There are 2 apartments on every floor with no balcony at all, they could move her to one of these!
B. They could put pigeon netting over her balcony and others to stop this, if a tenant was to throw anything over there balcony they would have to rip the netting to do so, Judy admits to doing this, the whole building knows she does this, if anyone gets hit with a beer bottle coming from 24 floors up the will be surely be dead!
C. The police and the city could put her in a mental home where she really should be or just locked up, I watched the police go to her apartment 6 times one night, they surely know what is going on, I asked her why she does this and she said “I love to call them, my new cell phone has unlimited free calling, they are all so hot in there uniform when they are here just to deal with me all night”!
This is Judy’s balcony, the red dot is where it is 24 floors up!
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The walkway to the building use to be covered to save people from being killed from stuff like this, but the building didn’t maintain it and it fell one day, it was made out of thick huge steal and it fell on someone, she sued and won of course (very nice woman), but have a look at what it did to the huge thick unbreakable steal bench!
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TCHC did replace the walkway structure, but just the frame, now if Judy or someone throws a beer bottle from their balcony and it hits the frame you most likely won’t die, but you and others around you will get hit with shards of broken glass, have a look!
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Now the bed bug thing, someone posted 250 of 700 units are infested with bed bugs, that is 35% of the building, NOT! My floor alone has at least 16 of the 26 apartments infested with bed bugs, that is at least 61% and my floor is not the worst, why is this? Serial killer Nancy Evan and the rest of the TCHC expert bedbug staff have told me they don’t know where the bedbugs are coming from? HOW CAN THEY NOT KNOW, IT IS THERE JOB TO KNOW THIS! If anyone goes online you can easily find out in minutes, google bedbugs! A few months ago TCHC did a bed bug check, they checked almost every apartment, they checked mine and found none, bedbugs don’t bit me for some reason, maybe they know I have AIDS, I have slept in apartments here that were infested with bed bugs several times when I had the killer refrigerator that TCHC gave me when I moved in, and not one bite, then they told me I must move all my furniture to have my apartment sprayed, I am way to sick to move furniture and why do it when I have no bedbugs at all, I have had my apartment checked several times for bedbugs and nothing! ALL of the TCHC staff told me to get a note from my doctor and get a receipt for the mover who moves my furniture and TCHC will pay me back, I did this and still to this day not one cent! The TCHC bedbug project just made things way worse, tenants would throw out there bedbug-infested furniture out back to the dumpsters, financially poor tenants would sell the furniture beside the grocery store here (food basics) or take the bedbug-infested furniture back to there apartment, to the point where the police with guns were guarding the dumpsters. Then tenants would just leave the bedbug-infested furniture in the hallway or by the elevators, the whole building got worse from the TCHC bedbug project even the buildings in the area are much more infested from the TCHC bedbug project!
If you have a problem as a tenant at 200 Wellesley and you are male nothing will happen but you might get ripped off, if you have a problem and you are female nothing will happen, you might get ripped, but there is a good chance the office will send someone to sexually assault you! But remember if you are poor and have to call for building maintenance with no phone you can’t use someone else’s because you must enter your phone number to get threw in the system, call and see for yourself and find out (416) 981-5500 its called EasyTrac LOL, if you have a cell phone it will cost you hundreds as TCHC don’t like to answer the phone until you have been on hold for hours!
If you have a child and are planning to move in 200 Wellesley St E, call the police and ask them about the building, call the emergency task force (they are here regularly) and ask them, call your friend’s and the city or just ask anyone that lives in the GTA!
If you still want to move in email us first and we will show you around, please don’t bring your children!
noplaceforchildren@hotmail.com
I am sure you can even knock on Judy’s door apt 2414 during the day when she is sober. I have been in her apartment, it is infested with bedbugs, cockroaches, shit and mould.
Thanks for you time I hope this helps!

Submitted by "Minerva" on 04/30/2010

My Aunt Use To Live On The 26th Floor And I Am A Witness That This Has Got To Be The WORST BUILDING Anybody Can Move Into If You Have Children And Have Some Self Respect Please DO NOT MOVE Into This Building All Of These Complaints Aare VERY True About Everything Bed Bugs, Roaches Drug Addicts, Hookers ETC You Can NOT Be Safe In This Building!

Submitted by "taptap" on 10/04/2009

this building has bedbugs and cockroaches, TCHC do not help disabled tenents with this, my friend is Blind and they wont even help him, he is so sick of the problems but has nowhere else to go...

His Guide Dog has gotten sick from eating bugs..

There are spiders too, we find the webs everywhere, and the cockroaches are huge, and just overwhelming for him..

its sickening to have to see him live in this mess, its not fun watching the cockroaches doing "indy 500" up and down the walls..

TCHC dont seem to give a damm and the staff in the office at 375 bleecker street are so useless its not even funny..

I wonder what would happen if everyone that lives in their buildings showed up at their HQ at 931 Yonge street (just south of Rosedale subway station) with jars of bedbugs, cockraoches and whatever other bugs they have to put up with, and let them all loose in the TCHC HQ building??

Submitted by "Brian" on 10/04/2009

I had a rash and allergy reaction for 3 weeks before I discovered bed bugs in the box spring of my mattress. My landlord,Tornto Community Housing sprayed September 25, 2009. I hope they are all gone.

Submitted by "J" on 09/04/2009

There are not just bedbug but other types of pests. Cockroaches, mice, bedbugs infest this building and no matter how clean you keep your home they always return. The management staff does not assist its tenants either in any of these situations. It is disgusting!!! Do not move here other than the pests the building also houses drug addicts and hookers.

Submitted by "NJ" on 06/26/2009

Apartment number 1412 is riddled with cock roaches and bed bugs. The number is alarming and absolutely disgusting. Spraying is NOT enough! The staff said the "bug problem is under control" which is a lie - this is a serious problem. I do not suggest moving into this apartment building. Watch for cock roaches in the hallways and in the apartments. Bed bugs are harder to spot but put some sticky board down and you'll see just how serious the problem is.

Submitted by "Anonymous" on 02/15/2009

It would appear that the landlord would like to see a lower number but you could not see that from the number of complaints from tenants in that building..........

Submitted by " NO NAME" on 02/13/2009

250 of 700 units infested. Where did this information come from and can this report be validated? Sounds like this report is nothing but an attempt to poisen and spread fear in the community.

Submitted by "SRC" on 02/03/2009

There bed bugs in at least 250 of the 700 units in this buiding