AN AMPUTEE nun is one of 16 shocked elderly council housing residents being evicted in a cost-cutting move.
By June 2013 Bayside Council will close down 18 independent living units in Sandringham and Beaumaris.
The council said it could not afford “the major investment required” to maintain the units.
But one of the residents, Sister Patrice Timoney, said she believed the eviction was a cash grab for valuable land, and there was nothing wrong with their homes.
She has lived at the Sandringham Rd complex for 18 months, but other neighbours, who were too distraught to speak publicly, have been there for decades.
The council said it could not afford “the major investment required” to maintain the units.
But one of the residents, Sister Patrice Timoney, said she believed the eviction was a cash grab for valuable land, and there was nothing wrong with their homes.
She has lived at the Sandringham Rd complex for 18 months, but other neighbours, who were too distraught to speak publicly, have been there for decades.
“This is a stressful, awful thing to do to us and I am angry and upset,” Sister Timoney said.
“It is pure greed to just sell us out - we have everything we could want here and it is beyond belief they would kick us out of our homes to make money.”
