BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Residents at Buffalo’s Sedita Apartments, for senior living, have been without consistent heat and hot water since Saturday, forcing them to boil water for baths and sleep in coats and gloves, during the current bitter cold stretch.
The heating crisis has affected multiple Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority properties, with complaints also coming from Marine Drive Apartments, Belmont Housing and Stuyvesant Apartments on Elmwood Avenue. The problems have persisted since early December, according to residents who reached out to local media for help.
“We have water, but it’s ice cold. You have to heat it up in the microwave or put it on the stove to boil it,” said Arnetta Crome, who has lived at Sedita Apartments since the fall of 2025.
Regina Givens, a 20-year resident, described the desperate conditions.
“There was a time I had to go to bed with a coat and a hat on. Who does that?” Givens said…