D.C. mom begs to move after finding mice in food and children’s bed
“I’m very upset and it is very disturbing to me at this point,” she wrote. “I can’t take it anymore at this point. It’s just mice infested. I’m tired of it.”
In a metropolitan area where construction is constantly bringing new buildings, ones that often come with high rents, Harris’s situation shows what it looks like to be stuck depending on the city for housing. She can’t afford to move on her own. She can’t force officials to give her rental assistance in a different building. And she can’t accept that her children will just have to get used to knowing they might wake up with mice in their beds.
Two girls went missing from the same D.C. shelter 8 years ago. One came back. The other was Relisha Rudd. The two also shared with me numerous emails they have written to city officials and employees of the D.C. Housing Authority , which provides the family’s subsidy, and the United Planning Organization , an agency that serves the city’s low-income residents and owns the building where the family lives. Those correspondences show Harris has repeatedly expressed her desperation.
Josephine Boukhira of the UPO said in a statement that Harris has lived in the one-bedroom unit for 13 years and that the agency is “committed to supporting Ms. Harris” and “this is not a case where a tenant’s concerns have been ignored by the housing provider.”The statement describes the UPO as painting the apartment, renovating a bathroom and taking “immediate action” in 2021 after receiving notice of concerns about rodents.
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