“We regret the incident on May 27 and at the town hall meeting tonight I will apologize to the Swansea Mews community for the disruption they have experienced and the tension the incident has caused,” TCH President and CEO Jag Sharma said in a statement Tuesday evening.
A female tenant was seriously injured after a concrete ceiling panel collapsed in a townhouse bedroom at the complex, located near Windermere Avenue and The Queensway. A report by a structural engineer found the reason for the collapse dates back to the building’s construction and that routine inspections would not have identified the problem. The report called for further testing to determine the extent of the issue.There were 113 occupied units at the complex at the time of the incident and at least 25 household have already been moved to temporary accommodations.
Tory's office said the city is working through a backlog of repairs at TCH facilities, but said it will takes years to complete due to “decades of neglect.”