HOUSTON: Thirteen elderly and disabled residents face eviction from their social housing complex pending a plan to renovate their building. Despite having been told they’ll have temporary housing elsewhere, they fear that there’s no guarantee they’ll be able to move back home.
After decades of complaints from public housing residents about their squalid living conditions — rampant mold and mildew, vermin infestations and elevators that break down for days at a time — the authorities are finally embarking on making sweeping improvements…