Mayor Rob Ford says he disagrees with “many things” in the ombudsman’s report on the Toronto Community Housing Corp.’s mistreatment of seniors with unpaid rent — though he does not appear to be familiar with much of what the report says.

Ford reverted Thursday to the bombastic speaking style he has rarely deployed in a council meeting since he was elected mayor. Gesticulating and shouting, he defended the TCHC for eviction practices the TCHC has already conceded were improper in the wake of an investigation by ombudsman Fiona Crean.

“I don’t care if you’re 2 years old, 20 years old or 200 years old, you're not going to live for free,” Ford said. Of TCHC chief executive Gene Jones, he said, “Obviously he has fixed the problem. Is it perfect? No.” Turning to a left-leaning critic, he yelled, “You! You’re the problem!”

Ford was speaking during a stressful morning in which he faced repeated media questions about whether he was connected to a major drug raid in Etobicoke.

He said again that he was “saddened and shocked” by the Crean report, which found that TCHC failings led to the eviction of a senior, Julio Fernandez, who died of a heart attack three weeks later. But he did not appear to have read the report in detail.