Monique Fennell stood in the snow at 100 Angelou Terrace, pointing out the flat ground in the distance where once stood the building with her three-bedroom apartment that she had moved into as a single mom to three kids. After nearly seven years of calling the apartment her home, Fennell had to move out in February this year.
“I didn’t want to move out. I loved my apartment. I loved my neighbors. I loved the fact that the (Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central) was across the street, and at the time, all three of my children went there,” Fennell said.
Fennell is one of several Syracuse Housing Authority tenants at McKinney Manor who moved to make way for the redevelopment of public housing on Syracuse’s Southside…