Manitoba First Nation family to get new home after deplorable conditions revealed – CTV News
November 4, 2016
A family in Manitoba’s Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation is getting a new home after the deplorable state of their crumbling, overcrowded house was detailed in a YouTube video — a happy outcome for one family that sadly represents a housing crisis plaguing indigenous communities across the country.
Clint McIvor posted a three-minute video tour of his cousins’ decrepit house last month in the hopes of getting the prime minister’s attention and raising funds to get the family into a more habitable abode. According to McIvor, 10 people call the rat-infested, three-bedroom trailer their home. A newborn baby is also on the way, McIvor says. In the video, he shows backed-up sewage, a profusion of mould, hole-riddled walls and rotting foundations.
“The smell of sewage is so bad — it’s horrible,” McIvor says in the video. “I don’t know how anybody can live like this… These people are suffering. There’s no heat. Sewage is backed up. Rats are crawling in, scratching at the kids at night.”
