Sarah Perrin is a disabled single mother of two living in a subsidized BC Housing unit.

“I don’t pay market value rent, but I pay with something way more valuable than money, I pay with trauma,” she told CityNews.

Christmas decorations are the best she can do to make the townhouse feel like home in the face of consistent cockroach infestations.

She pulls the refrigerator forward to show the CityNews team where some of the cockroaches hide in her home.She also points to traces of mould and mice in her home.

“We are always sick, the kids get dizzy when they stand up, everybody is chronically fatigued,” Perrin said.

“BC Housing almost makes me feel less than worthy of having a safe, clean home for my children, and I don’t know why.”

Perrin came forward after seeing a recent CityNews sto

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