00:00For many people, their home is a comfort zone, but not for Alicia Lee, who tells us about three years ago,
00:07she began coming home to water in her living room, and she later realized the roof was leaking.
00:13It gets real bad, so if you observe when you're growing here, that water is like a swimming pool, it's like a pool.
00:23My furniture after cleaning up, my radio had destroyed, the baby had fallen, I get falls, it's getting so, so bad right now, really, really bad, it gets worse than how it was before.
00:35Fortunately, there were no serious injuries to the baby girl who turned two years old on June 11th.
00:41She just got a little bruise under her chin and that's what's up.
00:45And you said you have fallen many times already, were you ever seriously injured or were you ever injured?
00:50Just the ankle and that was about it.
00:52There are four children living in the house, a pair of 11-year-old twins, a 4-year-old and a toddler.
00:59Lee lives on the third floor and is a rental tenant.
01:02Infrastructural repairs, such as the roof, she tells us, have to be undertaken by the Housing Development Corporation, which is the landlord.
01:09I went to HDC many occasions, many, many occasions until I'm fed up.
01:14What is HDC telling you?
01:16HDC has been telling me they have no materials, they order the materials, somebody will come and look at it.
01:23And when they do come and look at it, that's all.
01:25They come, they look, that's it.
01:26Every time I call, somebody come in, somebody come in.
01:29And that's it, HDC does nothing else.
01:31She claims that she's tried taking matters into her own hands by trying to get someone to fix it.
01:37And while she's waiting, it's hampering her celebrating occasions like Christmas or even bringing people into her home.
01:59But it's also a cause for uncertainty.
02:03And especially if I'm at home and I see this kind of weather, my mind just starts to run fast, very quick.
02:09Because I can't have no mats on the ground.
02:12No more, I had a lot of mats.
02:13I had rugs.
02:14I can't have anything on the ground, nothing at all, because everything just destroyed.
02:18I have to throw it away.
02:20Because I didn't just be home because of the coolness and the water on the ground.
02:25I don't be home because of this.
02:26Lee's plea to the HDC is simply to resolve the problem.
02:32Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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