A girl on incapacity says she’s dwelling in a flooded, moldy mess and might’t get out. She says her condo in northwest Oklahoma City is in fixed disrepair.
“I can’t even walk outside my door and feel safe anymore,” Beth Garcia mentioned.
Garcia lives at ‘The Alora’ alongside Northwest 63rd Street and North MacArthur Boulevard. The complicated not too long ago modified names and there are a number of flats which might be vacant and boarded up. Garcia says the rubbish hasn’t been picked up in weeks and she or he simply obtained a discover the water to the complicated can be shut off in every week. However, it’s the issues inside which might be inflicting her essentially the most complications.
“It’s been issue after issue after issue nonstop,” Garcia mentioned.
Garcia says she moved into her condo in July of 2021 however six months later these points started. First, she mentioned a damaged sprinkler system flooded her condo. After that was mounted, she mentioned the water issues didn’t cease.
“I was like ‘Wait a minute, why is it raining in my living room,’” she mentioned.
Buckets are strategically placed underwater leaks in her ceiling, a kind of leaks popping out of a smoke detector each time it rains. “It will soak the whole floor and I have to keep my trash can underneath it,” she mentioned.
Now she says the mould is taking up inside her condo and different vacant ones in her building. “It’s getting old, and the office knows about it,” Garcia mentioned.
According to a discover Garcia obtained from the workplace, the harm to her condo is simply too in depth to restore and the complicated doesn’t have a substitute unit for her to maneuver into. Garcia says she has bipolar dysfunction and suffers from nervousness. She has a help canine named Whitney that helps her cope. However, the 2 want to search out one other place to reside.
“I’m looking for another place and it’s not easy finding one especially since there are no vacancies for a one-bedroom, I’ve been looking,” she mentioned. “I can’t stand it anymore; I want out of here.”
According to the supervisor of the complicated, the water is not going to be shut off, the difficulty was taken care of. As for Garcia, she is dependent upon a housing voucher and was instructed she could be given an extension to present her extra time to discover a new place to reside.
