Senior tenants’ battle: Cockroaches, water leaks, maintenance problems
For months, 83-year-old Bonnie McCord of Oakley would pull on her rubber gloves each evening and spend hours meticulously scrubbing her apartment, hoping to rid it of the cockroaches that would scamper across her floors, in her cupboards, on her walls and across her arms as she sat on her recliner.
Exhausted, the retired widow said she finally threw her hands up about a month ago and agreed to temporarily stay with a friend downstairs so professional exterminators could treat her home and she could get some rest before continuing the roach battle, which is now going on for almost a year. Bonnie McCord displays a trap of dead cockroaches from the kitchen of her apartment at The Commons at Oak Grove senior housing complex in Oakley, Calif., on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. McCord, 83, has not been able to live in the apartment for over a month because of the infestation.
Oakley City Councilwoman Shannon Shaw visited the complex to see for herself recently after community activist Mike Dupray posted a video about McCord’s cockroaches onShaw, who manages senior housing in Pittsburg, said she saw some problems and shared insights and resources with the tenants. McCord’s nightmares began shortly after her husband died last year, she said, noting two “floods” – from an overflowing toilet and kitchen sink – led to problems she “never would have imagined.”McCord moved for a month to another apartment last year while maintenance looked for leaks, repainted her apartment, replaced baseboards and a window, and installed new flooring.
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