LaTonya Smith, 57, said there are days when she gets home from work and just sits in her car to avoid the stress and problems awaiting inside her Pittsburgh apartment.
“For like two hours I am like ‘oh I do not want to go into this building. I can barely breathe,’” said Smith, who is a longtime tenant of Lynd Living’s Hill Com II Apartments.
On Thursday, members of PA Renters United Allegheny — a Pittsburgh tenant advocacy group — joined residents of apartments owned by New Jersey–based NB Affordable to protest and call for action. Their demands included completing overdue repairs, meeting with property managers, distributing utility subsidy checks, and clearing outstanding debt claims against tenants…