Illegal boarding house with 70 units closes down in Brantford

An illegal boarding house in Brantford has been shut down after attracting drug users, city inspectors, police investigations and other first responders for the better part of a year.The building, which started as a bakery about 140 years ago and most recently was a granite manufacturing business, had been turned into a 70-unit living space despite being just 1,000 square metres in size with two partial basement sections – about the same space 25 small studio apartments would need.There w