Tenants of a Newark affordable housing complex, which was plagued by a rat infestation three years ago, are once again pleading for help, this time mainly over what they say is a lack of heat aggravated by the recent cold snap.
“When I have the oven and stove on, and I put enough clothes on, I’m okay, but the radiators are cold,” said Linda Hobson, 65, a retired nurse’s assistant who lives in a townhouse at the Georgia King Village complex with her 15-year-old grandson. “I’m not trying to get nobody in trouble. All I want is some heat.”
Hobson welcomed a reporter into her home on Thursday, when the temperature was not particularly chilly. It was warmer than usual, Dobson said, because she had her stove and burners on and some of the baseboard heaters were working…