Source: In These Times
by Thomas Birmingham
“Gabriel Caban has had three constant companions in the nine short months he’s been alive. There’s Beatriz Caban, his 27-year-old mom. There’s the black-and-white blanket he refuses to sleep without. And there’s the mold that grows in the floorboards and walls of his apartment — the mold that has sent him three times to the emergency room, the mold he’s been breathing in his entire life. On Nov. 17, 2023, an eight-months-pregnant Beatriz Caban moved into Sunset Ridge Apartments, a 312-unit low-income complex nestled in the northeast corner of New Haven, Conn. She found mold for the first time that day, along with a bucket in the laundry room next door, filled to the brim with water dripping from the ceiling. In January, she took Gabriel home from the hospital. Before Gabriel was four weeks old, the conditions at Sunset Ridge sent him back.” (10/23/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/mold-landlords-tenants-rights-housing-health-crisis-city-government