Jerrell Shuford shows visitors a large hole above the shower in the apartment in Temple Hills where he lives with his wife and four children. The hole in the ceiling gaped above the shower, leaking dirty water into Jerrell Shuford’s bathroom. It took almost a year before maintenance workers at the apartment building in Prince George’s County cut away the moldy parts, but they never patched the hole, Shuford said.
Shuford was silent for a moment. He drives a bus for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and his wife works in the guidance office at a county public school. His oldest child is 13, and the other three are younger than 5. The family has been plagued by chest colds and coughs that he worries are caused by mold.
“There is no way we can expect landlords to provide a service and maintain their properties with that in place,” said Ivey, who voted in support of the temporary measure. She added that in her recent conversations with local landlords, they have opposed a permanent 3 percent cap. Coalition volunteers have teamed up to go out each week to gather petition signatures from renters. They’ve also engaged people such as Charlene Hall, 59, who has lived in Heather Hill for six years, to help rally her neighbors. She and her adult son and daughter share a three-bedroom unit. Hall knows firsthand how renters have been in a constant battle with management over the disconnect between the price they pay for rent and the housing quality that monthly price provides.
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