DALLAS — Willie Mae Coleman has lived in the Bertrand neighborhood in South Dallas for more than 60 years. She says she’s never seen mattresses and couches on the sidewalk until now, and it’s causing unwanted guests.
“I’m just so nervous and upset,” she told WFAA. “I got bugs crawling around over here … and everybody’s complaining about rats.”
Coleman says the bugs and rodents are linked to an uptick in the number of homeless people who are setting up on the sidewalks outside and into an empty lot just steps away from her home, which she believes is causing her some health issues…