Housing tenants in Bowenfels wait months, years for vital repairs

By Phoebe Moloney
Updated December 8 2017 - 12:48pm, first published 12:00pm
"WE PAY THE RENT": The Gavins have been looking out onto a house destroyed by a fire for four months and waiting for a gutter to be replaced for 6 years. Picture: PHOEBE MOLONEY.
"WE PAY THE RENT": The Gavins have been looking out onto a house destroyed by a fire for four months and waiting for a gutter to be replaced for 6 years. Picture: PHOEBE MOLONEY.

Frank Butler and John Opera of Stewart Street, Bowenfels, have had a major win. After months of complaining to the Department of Family and Community Services about the rising damp in their conjoined units a plumber came out on Monday to lay down drainage pipes in their front yard.

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