Fredericton housing crisis leaves some newcomers living in wretched conditions
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Hamadi Hamisi and his family spent 10 years trying to survive on meagre rations in a refugee camp in Kenya, living in a mud house with a bamboo roof.
This year in Fredericton, as newly arrived refugees looking for a place to live, they stood in a dark, dank basement apartment, where mould grew on the walls, there was no proper ventilation, and the single, tiny window in one of the three bedrooms was broken.
Hamisi and his wife, Fatuma Mohamed, could feel their dreams of a place where their five children could play, maybe sleep in separate rooms and finally have a home become a little more distant.
But the resettlement agent helping the couple had warned they would have to find a place on their own if they didn't take this one. It was a frightening prospect for Hamisi and Mohamed, who don't speak English.
They signed a lease with a promise from the landlord that he would fix the $2,000-a-month apartment.
And soon after they moved in, water was dripping down the walls and onto the floors, soaking the carpet, beds and and clothes, and bringing a stench of dampness. It became hard to breathe.
For months, Hamisi said, his cries for help — to the landlord and to the Multicultural Association of Fredericton, known as MCAF — were ignored.
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