First, water started seeping in from broken pipes. Soon, black mold
began to bloom from behind paint slapped on by the property manager to
hide it.
Georgia residents displaced from affordable housing denied decent
places to live
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Esther Schrader Read the full piece here
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Friend,
It had seemed like such a blessing.
A single parent living in a homeless shelter, eight months pregnant
with her second child, Ayran Tucker was ecstatic when a townhouse
opened up in Forest Cove, a public affordable housing complex in
Southeast Atlanta.
At the 296-unit development on a main bus line, Tucker, now 33, hoped
she could build a stable home for her children. Despite her community
college degree, Tucker was making just $13 per hour, the demands of
parenthood and poverty making it hard for her to find better pay.
Public housing seemed to offer her and her kids a chance.
But within months of her move to Forest Cove in 2017, Tucker's
hopes began to unravel. At first, it was what was happening outside
her three-bedroom apartment that terrified her - the tat-tat-tat
of bullets, the fighting, the shouting between people at the breaking
point that had her sleeping fearfully in the same bed with her kids.
Then, the nightmare came into her home.
First, water started seeping in from broken pipes. Soon, black mold
began to bloom from behind paint slapped on by the property manager to
hide it.
As Tucker's family grew - she has four children now
- so did the obstacles to keeping them healthy in Forest Cove.
Her baby son inhaled the mold. There were trips to the emergency room
and nights with him struggling to breathe.
No matter how hard she scrubbed, roaches would creep out of seams in
the wall and holes in the floor of her kitchen. And the rats. Chewing
through the ceiling. Scampering across the bed. So many rats Tucker
said she couldn't keep up with them even by changing three traps
twice every day.
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