Public housing residents across the city decry bugs, rodents and danger
Dozens of the 400,000 residents of the nation’s largest public housing system emotionally told a judge on Wednesday what it’s like to live with rats and cockroaches and mold in buildings where elevators, heat and running water are unreliable.
“We cannot live safely and healthily in these terrible conditions,” said Monica Underwood, one of the residents.
The voices were added to 700 others who described their lives in letters before U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III heard comment on a proposed $2 billion settlement of lawsuits aimed at holding the New York City Housing Authority, known as NYCHA, responsible for decades of neglect.