An 89-year-old who lives on Broughdale Avenue is in disbelief after her property was again damaged during a student street party on the residential street where she's lived for almost 60 years.

Two years ago, Bess Srahulek's garden was badly damaged when crowds of partiers trampled it and used her backyard as a latrine during the unsanctioned party near Western University, which has become an annual event on Broughdale since 2016.

During Saturday's party, three young men climbed onto the roof of her house. Srahulek wasn't home at the time. On the advice of police, she spent Friday night in a hotel to avoid being in her house during the party. Srahulek's house is one of the few homes on Broughdale that isn't a student rental property.

Police told Srahulek that they ordered three young men to get off the roof of her house during the party. Two jumped down but one opted to climb down. As he did, his foot went through a window at the back of the house.

Rooftop partying has become a persistent problem at the Broughdale bash, and it's something that causes huge concern for officials with London's emergency services. The crowding on the street makes it difficult for paramedics to reach anyone injured or transport them out by ambulance.

There's an online fundraising campaign underway to cover the costs of repairing this broken window at Bess Srahulek's house. The window was damaged during Saturday's student street party. Srahulek, who is 89, has lived on Broughdale for almost 60 years. (Andrew Lupton/CBC)

CBC News reached out to police Thursday to see if anyone was charged for climbing onto Srahulek's roof, but did not receive a reply.

During the party, Srahulek bought her tabby cat, Thomas, with her to the downtown hotel.

"I had to pay $163 to stay overnight when I should have been in my own house," she said. "The system is so out of control, that this kind of thing is allowed. Where's our morality?" she said.

"There's something very drastically wrong that someone who lives here since 1960, pays $4,000 in property tax is put out of her house so a few party people from all over can come and destroy different parts of the street."

Campaign to raise repair money

An online fundraising campaign is underway to raise money to repair the window and any roof damage.

A group of students came to Srahulek's house Wednesday. They helped fix her front-yard fence, which was also damaged during Saturday's party and offered to help arrange the window repair.

When her garden was trampled by partiers in 2017, a group of student volunteers showed up a few days later to repair the damage.

The student street party has grown in size since 2016, when official homecoming was moved to October and students began to continue to celebrate fake homecoming, known as FOCO, on the last Saturday of September.

This year's party was tamer than in 2018 and resulted in fewer hospital transfers. But the estimated overall number of partiers grew to 25,000, up 5,000 from the previous year. Police had to shut down Richmond Street for more than four hours.

Srahulek is she's grateful for the help fixing the damage, but wonders why people can't simply stay off her property — including her rooftop — during the party.

"Where's the sense in this?" she said. "There's got to be a better answer somewhere. Seems to be that we're beyond controlling these kids."