CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A toddler hospitalized, a wall torn down, and living quarters cordoned off with plastic sheeting: these are the conditions a Cleveland mother says her family has endured for months inside public housing.
Latonya Davis lives with five of her children in a Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) property on East 49th Street.
Three weeks ago, she rushed her 28-month-old son to the hospital after he began struggling to breathe.
Davis said doctors attributed her toddler’s respiratory distress to black mold spreading through their home.
“I didn’t know if my baby was gonna die, and I don’t want him to die,” Davis said. “He’s 28 months old. He’s a healthy baby, you know. No problems until this.”…