Notebook
Neal Rockwell is an artist, journalist and media activist based in Montreal. He is collaborating with the Herongate Tenants Coalition to create multimedia documentation of the lives and living conditions of Herongate residents. He is also working on a skillshare with tenants to help develop media and documentary skills. Notebook is his ongoing feature, which includes a mixture of written observations and interviews, photographs and short video clips.
The last time I visited Herongate it was raining. It was a day of intermittent precipitation, relatively cool before the stifling heat wave of a week later. A tenants’ meeting was scheduled for the afternoon. Before the meeting we went to Mohamed Yussuf’s house to meet up with his daughter, Ikram Dahir. She was still out when we arrived so we waited with Yussuf’s wife. As I mentioned in a previous article, they had had a problem with their bathroom since September 2017. The roof leaks, and water had caused damage to the ceiling and allowed mould to proliferate. Despite numerous calls, Timbercreek management was unresponsive for nearly nine months. Read more
Liberal media is shameless. Shameless and complicit.
What on earth are you doing asking a question like this @CBCOttawa ??
Capitalist class wants to clear 1000s of more tenants from their homes in Herongate while liberals talk "more evidence"
More evidence of a housing crisis. Lack of housing allowances & new affordable builds and losses to short-term rentals having serious impacts in Ottawa. #HousingCrisis #Homelessness https://t.co/UzIa3L4l1C
If Timbercreek "redevelops" Heron Gate, in ten years you'll have municipal candidates raving about how "inclusive" the neighborhood is and how great the planning is. By displacing residents, redevelopment ruptures neighborhood memory.
