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The Edina City Council declared a condo unit unfit and unsafe last week and gave the occupant 20 days to remedy her unit. The woman living in the unit exhibits signs of hoarding disorder, a mental illness. 

The city determined that the amount of possessions in the unit was a fire hazard. Janet Yeats, co-founder of The Hoarding Project, says the case shows that hoarding crosses all socioeconomic lines. 

"These people are not necessarily crazy or poor or living in ramshackle houses, they can be right next door ... they can be people you work with," Yeats 

. "There's a stereotype there, to think it can't happen in Edina or North Oaks. It does. It can happen anywhere."

Often, the hoarder is dealing with unresolved trauma from the death of a loved one, abandonment or a divorce, Yeats 

Yeats joins The Daily Circuit along with Lee Shuer, director of Mutual Support Services.

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