Metz. Threatened with having to move at over 80: “We feel abandoned”

Anny is 84 years old. She has lived in the Malraux independent living residence for seventeen years. A few floors below lives Raymonde, 83. Like the other remaining tenants, they are subject to the receivership proceedings of the Association seniors temps libre and the Avec group. "I'm very anxious because I won't find another apartment at this price," fears one of the neighbors. "And no one is responding to us anymore!"

Anny, 84, and Raymonde, 83, list the consequences of the lack of maintenance in their residence dedicated to the elderly: broken elevator and mailboxes, intercoms that no longer work, no heating for part of the winter... A neighbor, over 90, now has to go down to get some fresh air — Anny, 84, and Raymonde, 83, list the consequences of the lack of maintenance in their residence dedicated to the elderly: broken elevator and mailboxes, intercoms that no longer work, no heating for part of the winter… A neighbor, over 90, now has to go down to get some fresh air “on the sidewalk of Avenue Malraux, because her wheelchair no longer fits in the garden path!” Photo Lisa Lagrange

Anny lives on the ^5th floor of the Malraux Independent Living Residence in Sablon. She feels comfortable in her one-bedroom apartment, even though she's been waiting "for many years" for renovations. "My kitchen is completely broken! I haven't had a mechanical ventilation system for months. But I don't want to move!"

An apartment, habits, a neighborhood

Since April, like her neighbors, Anny has been afraid of being forced to leave the area, her habits, her neighborhood. "We received a phone call from...

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