While a survey of tenants produced over half agreeing that sound proofing should be better - with the assistance of a City Councillor - the councillor’s help faded and other politicians found no will to truly respond and communicate. It was likely the efforts of the "helpful" politician which prevented the landlord from having the building torn down and replaced following a gutting fire. The results, were a horrendous waste of money creating a long term hell-hole. It was further damaged by the pile driving for a subsidized building directly across the street.
I also found that few tenants in any building seemed to believe they should be involved in doing anything about seeing that the building code is changed to force better quality for the future children - especially as "luxury", which seems to mean how it looks and not how it sounds or feels (building shake is also noise as a rule). Since the industry thinks they’re just fine it will never become what it has been or could be. Greed and fear of property value loss paralyses the possible. |