Another mother is suing one of Cincinnati’s largest low-income housing providers, blaming her 4-year-old son’s breathing problems on exposure to toxic mold.
Mariyah Varner is the fourth tenant to file a lawsuit against Preservation of Affordable Housing, or POAH, alleging that mold inside their apartments is causing health problems from severe headaches, bloody noses, skin rashes and asthma to the deaths of two infants.
“He’d be coughing so bad at night … and I take him to the hospital, and his oxygen was so low they said he could have died,” Varner said, describing her son’s 10-day stay at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in August 2023…