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unhappycamper

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Sun Oct 5, 2014, 07:59 AM Oct 2014

Low-income renters in Anchorage bitten by another problem: Bedbugs [View all]

http://www.adn.com/article/20141004/low-income-renters-anchorage-bitten-another-problem-bedbugs



Low-income renters in Anchorage bitten by another problem: Bedbugs
Michelle Theriault Boots
October 4, 2014

After years of homelessness with her husband and children, Sandra Haviland was ecstatic to land an apartment this May.

The two-bedroom unit at the Royal Suite Apartments, a former motel that fronts Minnesota Drive, was modest.

The couple’s elementary school-age sons would share a bed. So would their two teenage daughters. Haviland and her husband would sleep on the couch and a fold-out cot, respectively.

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Haviland and some of her neighbors say their apartments are so infested with bedbugs that they put children to bed at night with a dose of Benadryl to dull itching and allow sleep.

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