An Anchorage Road resident says she has mixed feelings about being relocated by the Bermuda Housing Corporation to another property in St. David?s.

And one of the existing Ballast Point residents has accused the BHC of overcrowding at the new tenants? new home.

The residents of Anchorage Road, St. George?s have had a long, weary battle with their landlords BHC, over an alleged agreement that their homes would be renovated in order for them to move back in. The houses were going to be sold off initially, then BHC decided to renovate and rent.contacted someone from the first Anchorage Road exodus to see how they were settling into their new homes.

Althea Iris, 46, used to live in an upstairs apartment on Anchorage Road. Mrs. Iris said she loved her new home at Ballast Point, St. David?s: ?It?s beautiful, one of the new houses. I am one of six tenants. It is perfect, but it is a bit smaller than the last place?.

Social workers Renee Brown and Lannier Darrell helped her pack up her belongings, she said.

However, she said that it ?felt like a token that they helped me pack?.

?I should have been treated with respect. If someone slaps you in the face and then kisses you all over, you don?t normally just forget the slap. (BHC) could at least give me courtesy (to move back in). They gave me a good house, but everyone would have loved to stay where they were.?

Mrs. Iris said that she was informed by the BHC in a letter that said that her move from Anchorage Road was going to be permanent.

She felt that it was disrespectful of BHC not to offer her the chance to go back to Anchorage Road.

?It was underlined and in bold. It said it was a permanent move to alternative housing?.

But other than that, Mrs. Iris said that she was ?feeling good? about her new home, that her feelings were not just about the BHC and were more about modern Bermuda in general and that she was ?excited? about where she was now as a school and a club were near by.

One of the existing Ballast Point tenants, who did not wish to be named, said she welcomed the Iris family when they arrived in St. David?s on Friday and although had nothing against the new tenants, was worried about ?the way BHC are housing people?.

This 61-year-old retiree said the BHC had been using the building as a ?dumping ground? since she moved to Ballast Point nearly three years ago.

She said her home was once ?a single family dwelling that was split into six apartments. It is close quarters.

?Periodically, it can get overcrowded. At one stage we had ten children at a range of ages here. Some are still here ... the essence of what I?m saying is that the Housing Corporation should not be putting all of these people in such close quarters.?

She said that she has had to call the Police on several occasions to get people to turn the music down because she had been cursed off by neighbours when she told them herself.

?Why are dumping all these people into one building? The cottages have been left as a shell in Southside. The way I?m looking into it is what is healthy and unhealthy for parents and children. I think it?s better to have families spread apart,? she said.