well residents at a Camden County affordable housing building thought their deplorable living conditions would improve when the Camden Housing Authority took control of the complex two years ago but since then those residents many of whom are seniors say things have only gotten worse now among other problems they're dealing with no air conditioning as temperatures have reached close to Triple digits Ted Goldberg spoke to many of them today and has that story it's just like we're living in hell we're living we're paying in Hell people in some of Camden's public housing are Furious about their living conditions and their anger is aimed at the Camden Housing Authority it's hot as hell so it's hot in the house cuz the air condition is not working like it should work folks say their issues have been ignored for months sometimes years whether it's a broken window a missing smoke alarm or even a hole in the ceiling that hasn't been patched up his mom walks with a walker and because the carpet had has these um little ripples he's afraid she's going to fall and hurt herself another persistent issue has been mold when I visited the senior Tower at Baldwin's run some mold was being remediated but residents say there's a lot more of it my baby was just hospitalized for a whole week in intensive care her oxygen level keep dropping her heart rate keep racing and it's all from her being in that house I have mold in there no one's still been out to assess the mold since they had the people to come out to say that it was mold in the house three or four years I've had mold around my tub I can't even take a bath in my tub.

I've got wash up in my sink I'm scared to getting the tub.

Mold been in my house since 2010 they tried to move me on the other side of town I don't want to move there because my kids been here for 16 years why am I fighting to not move on the other side of town I pay the rent the first I don't miss the first and they don't listen.

The Camden housing Authority did not respond to our request for comment and people here say they don't appreciate how the Housing Authority has responded to them resident Amarilis Nirek baby don't let me sleep because they in their hole.

They tell me they they get me they put um put it down for maintenance to take care of a maintenance I don't never hear from them they just get tell them if they give me a bunch of bullsh about something and I don't hear nothing from them they're lying to us you know they're lying to me they're playing around with me they they they are just not honest people residents have made some fixes on their own like laying mouse traps they've also reached out to elected officials like their city councilman he's nowhere to be found they they've been leaving message they've been calling him but when they want a vote they are here and they feel that's they're being useful only when they're in the need for that vote a problem specific to Baldwin's run is a clogged trash shoot which has led to bad smells bugs and widespread anger there's people in the misery going through so much unnecessary we feel impotent housing is a right and people needs to be these seniors deserve to live at their best quality of life they can and right now they going through so so much residents tell me their next step is to make enough noise that people will start paying attention and maybe bring some relief for folks who live here in Camden I'm Ted Goldberg NJ Spotlight news [Music]