James Cullina is looking for a new home.
The 95-year-old has been living in the emergency department at Peace Arch Hospital for five days after running out of money to pay his rent at Sunnyside Manor, an independent living residence for seniors in White Rock.
“In the first couple of years, like two or three years, it was fine,” Cullina, who is a U.S. citizen and came to Canada 30 years ago, told Global News.
But he said as costs kept going up, living there was costing him more and more money.
“And I didn’t have any more and more money,” Cullina added.
After he used up his life savings and loans of $25,000, he said he was evicted on Sept. 30 from Sunnyside. He stayed for a day or two with a member of his church but that was not a long-term solution.
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The next day, he said he was dropped off at Peace Arch Hospital.
“I …