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Tenants tell Mifflin County commissioners of accessibility, infestation and maintenance failures at county housing authority
Summary
Multiple residents and a former housing authority employee told commissioners that transfers and slow maintenance left disabled tenants without usable ADA features and that widespread bed-bug complaints and delayed extermination have gone unresolved; commissioners urged follow-up and offered to meet.
Multiple Mifflin County residents used the meeting's public-comment period to press the Midland/Mifflin County Housing Authority on long-standing maintenance and accessibility failures, including reports of bed-bug infestations and a disabled tenant who was left without a usable shower for months after a forced transfer.
Nevada Lee, a former employee of the housing authority, said she was speaking to support Timothy Boltz and to explain why his transfer was improper. "He was forced to transfer to another unit recently, stating that he was over housed," Lee said, adding that the tenant had lived for decades in a larger unit that had been adapted for wheelchair access. She told…
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