25-year-old Natalia Rollins, a mother of two from new York, delivers a million-dollar lawsuit in the Supreme court in Brooklyn after her two year old son poisoned by lead contained in the paint in the apartment on Coney Island.
According to Reuters, in 2015, the city Agency helped former homeless family, arranging them in this apartment. The social program covers a large part of the monthly rent in the amount of $ 1515.
But in September of this year, as the youngest son of Natalia, a two-year Noah began to deteriorate. Doctors diagnosed the baby poisoning with lead, which is found in the paint on the walls.
Now housing authority new York city (NYCHA) has received dozens of claims that have not complied with annual inspection by paint with lead levels in residential complexes. According to the New York Post, all of these trials can cost the city up to $ 100 million.
In 2004, a law was passed by which the landlords are subject to an annual check on the content of lead in homes built before 1960.
When last month, the Reuters visited the rented apartment of Natalia Rollins, (except hazardous paint) found cockroaches, broken Windows and no heating. In the house recorded 163 violations of the housing code. The housing Department has fined the landlord of almost 15 thousand dollars and ordered him to carry out repairs.
Note that the 116-year-old building, where Natalia lives with children for many years is in the list of the 200 worst apartment buildings in new York, and its owner, Irwin Johnson now occupies the 14th place in the list of 100 worst landlords in the city.
Johnson himself declined to comment, but the building Manager stated that the recently proposed family Natalia to move to another apartment, but she refused.
