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Exclusive: Hall Beach family can't escape mould

Silas Tinashlu feels trapped.

He's been a tenant in a public housing duplex in Hall Beach for nine years and for much of that time black mould has been an issue.

Rot under the window sill in Silas Tinashlu's Nunavut Housing Corporation duplex in Hall Beach. photo courtesy of Silas Tinashlu

Mould can be found year round in the porch, around window sills, door frames and along the living room's upper walls and ceiling, he said.

It complicates his asthma and it's caused his girlfriend to break out in rashes. They live in the two-bedroom unit with their five children.

Read the full story in this week's Nunavut News.