NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Hours after the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s board set aside $5 million to fix and clean up sewage and trash, 68-year old Doreen White was unimpressed.
“It’s been happening since November and they have been going around, coming around like it just started,” White said.
Residents in Norfolk’s Young Terrace public housing neighborhood living in squalor
Atop a steep staircase that leads to her second-story unit, White can hear the rapid sounds of a woodpecker and the roar of sewage clearing machines. She wonders who is listening to her concerns about the condition of housing that was built in the 1950s.
“You got the mayor, you got the governor and they see what’s going on,” White said. “Don’t nobody really cares.”…