VANCOUVER—A rickety plastic folding chair is all that awaits seniors on the landing between the seventh and eighth floors of Solheim Place, a non-profit apartment building in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Michel Guerin, 63, speaks to 50 other residents at a protest against the building's elevator to the three upper floors being broken 200 days on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Article Continued BelowThe award-winning charity manages roughly 600 units of affordable housing in Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby. Solheim Place, on Union St., contains 86 apartments, all of them rent-gearned-to-income where nobody pays more than 30 per cent of their earnings. “We remain committed to working with all relevant parties to repair the elevator at Solheim Place in the timeliest manner possible,” the organization said in a statement posted on its website.

Source: thestar April 13, 2019 23:37 UTC