Infestation?

I have just learned today that my cuisin has a possible mice infestation in his apartment. The apartment is old and has cheap rent but in todays society we need the cheapest of everything we can find as its getting harder and harder to make a living. Apparently the maintanence guy at the apartment says they deal with this every winter but never try to fix the problem so you know right away its not a great place to be. Theres enough mice that they can be heard in the walls and there are feces from what I have heard just about everywhere. I believe a health inspecter will be coming to examine the building and with the way it sounds this apartment building might be closed down from this. Although I realize it is prety imposible to live somewhere with an infestation I still am too against killing to agree with the slaughter of all these mice just trying to find a place to stay warm for the winter months. Rats and mice usually dont go into homes unless they are homes not taken care of or a food source is constantly being left out. So in the end, it is the humans fault for this. The landlord/maintanence personal for letting the building go and people being unclean. So once again because of humans all these mice will be slaughtered. A huge peeve with me is how people believe mice and rats are so toxic. My grandma for example although a nice lady really judges them and believes anything about them that she hears. That they ALL have diseases and they will attack you. No, you on average statistically speaking have more of a change of a stray cat biting you and you becoming infected. Cats mouths are proven to be dirtier then mice or rats. I just wish we xould all get past this judgeing and find a way to get the rats/mice to leave your home without turning to murder. After all, remember.. when you feel like killing these animals they are only trying to do what we do everyday, survive.