Janusz Grelecki has spent the last two nights sleeping in his truck beside a large pile of his possessions and building materials, after the City of Kelowna ordered the 73-year-old out of the home he has lived in for the past decade and a half.
The eviction on Tuesday was the culmination of an eight-year battle between Grelecki and the city over the state of his property and the multiple unpermitted renovation projects the city says have made it unsafe and unsightly.
“I don’t have a place to go now. I try to catch up in my head what I do now, where I stay because I don’t have a shower, no water, no shave,” Grelecki said from the street outside his home, which is now surrounded by blue construction fencing.
“If I go behind fence, they arrest me. It is like mafia. I have 5,000 pounds of meat in …