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Somali immigrants fight for improvements to North Side apartments

LASC • Jan 11, 2016

Cockroaches and mice scurry across the carpeted floor where Luul Botan’s three young children play.


The bathroom and kitchen faucets leak a steady stream of water. Some of the kitchen cabinets are broken. The drawers stick. And the front door doesn’t close easily, leaving the 32-year-old mother fearful that someone might break into their North Side apartment at night.


“The conditions are horrible, and the management at Capital Park apartments doesn’t care how bad it gets,” she said last week through a Somali interpreter.


Botan said she fears that her children, who are 5 years, 1 year and 4 months old, are being sickened by the insects and mouse droppings. She said she asked the manager five times to replace a missing screen in the living-room window of her second-floor apartment in the complex on Agler Road.


“I’m so afraid my daughter will fall out when she runs over to watch children playing outside. It’s so dangerous,” she said.


Read more at the Columbus Dispatch.

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