Two disabled Montreal seniors in apartment buildings owned by the same property management company in Verdun say they have been trapped in their homes for months due to elevator construction.

“This is an organization that has very very little regard for their their tenants,” said Nuns’ Island resident Harald Osberg, 86, referring to his landlord Structures Métropolitaines and its parent company Boardwalk Inc.

Osberg was confined to his fourth-floor apartment for eight weeks this summer before he said he had no choice but to move.

Living with severe osteoarthritis and relying on canes and a wheelchair, the elevator was his only way to leave his unit. When it became clear repairs weren’t ending on schedule, he transferred at the end of July into a temporary, unfurnished apartment nearby,

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