A month after a storm made his son’s bedroom uninhabitable, mushrooms were growing in the skirting boards and Dean Kahukiwa was still waiting for repairs to begin
When the ceiling of an upstairs bedroom in Dean Kahukiwa’s public housing unit in Sydney collapsed during a storm in February, the father of three immediately started calling for help.
A month later, nothing had changed. The room was covered in mould and debris from the storm, and mushrooms had begun to grow in the skirting boards of the bedroom. “I just feel embarrassed about it,” he said. “I know it’s not our fault but it does make me feel really down.”Corporation last week, a spokesperson said it had been aware of the damage since 9 February and had planned to complete the work by this week.
A month after the storm, Kahukiwa discovered mushrooms had begun to grow in the skirting boards of the bedroom.He said that before the damage occurred, he had repeatedly requested the gutters of the townhouse to be repaired, without luck. Two weeks after the storm, the gutters were repaired but the collapsed ceiling remained, he said.
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