BOSTON — A family of seven plagued by bedbugs and cockroaches says the city blames them for the pests and stuck them with an extermination bill, but the city says they are being evicted from public housing because they won’t cooperate with the bug sprayers.
“They say it’s because I don’t clean and I don’t wash my clothes. They blame me,” said Lucita St. Germain, a 38-year-old mom who lives with her husband and kids in a 3-bedroom apartment at the Old Colony development in South Boston.
Through a translator, she said the bugs keep coming back despite repeated exterminations, including one two months ago by the Boston Housing Authority. BHA is trying to evict them and sent them a $2,135 bill for exterminations. BHA spokewoman Lydia Agro said the agency has sent in exterminators up to 10 times since last year, but she said the family refuses to comply with procedures that would prevent the bugs from coming back.
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Source: Boston Herald
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