Following last week’s announcement of more housing inspectors for the city of Montreal, TVA talks with a housing inspector about some apartment-dwellers who live in inhabitable piles of garbage. The worst cases tend to involve people who have compulsive hoarding syndrome, a mental disorder that causes people to hold on to things with little or no value.
Do you know how long it takes to evict them? A friend of mine lives in a (respectable) high-rise, and has been plagued by Smelly Man down the hall for four months now. They keep saying he’ll be out “in a week or two,” but nothing yet…