Frustrated are the residents of the Claude Pepper Community Center II building located at 750 NW 18 Terrace in Miami.
Of the two elevators in the building, one has a piece of paper attached announcing that it is out of service, while the other blinks on the 6th floor. And they have been like that, residents say, for 3 days.
Paramedics have had to go to the scene to remove an elderly woman in a wheelchair who had to be carried up the stairs.
“I am operated on for cancer, I have pain, the rescue had to take me down, take me to the hospital, I come back now and they injected me but I can’t go up to my apartment because I can’t go up the stairs,” says the affected woman.
And they assure it is not the first time that this has happened.
We did the exercise of going up the stairs to meet some of the neighbors. Dirt and moisture is barely noticeable. There is garbage, abandoned clothes and even dried blood on the floor. The building built in 1970 has 166 apartments and is managed by the public housing agency of Miami Dade County.
