INDIANAPOLIS — Taneil Manns has been living with mold and disrepair in her apartment at Blackburn Terrace for months.
“They were supposed to knock this wall out and remove all the mold. They started but never finished,” Manns said. “It’s just a big hole, and the water is coming from the toilet all the way down here into the wall. So it’s causing black mold in the front room wall. We smell that, and it’s very dangerous.”
The complex, located on Indianapolis’s northeast side and owned by the Indianapolis Housing Agency (IHA), was also the site of a mass shooting on Saturday that injured five people. Residents routinely deal with issues such as trash and boarded-up units…