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admitted CMHA blamed his poor upkeep, yet he said there’s no excuse for the non-functioning faucet. (Harrison, like Ellis, believes he’s been placed on a “long waiting list.”)

“All that grease that’s coming off my dishes,” Harrison said during a tour of his apartment. He pointed to his bathtub, which, like his sink, is half covered in a thin layer of greying grime. “All that’s gonna clog my bathtub up!”

In an interview with Scene, CMHA Chief of Staff Jeffrey Wade said that the most dire complaints made by the authority’s 45,000 residents—”lack of heat, lack of water, lack of electricity, to the extent that we can control it”— ought to be assuaged in a day’s time. And, according to Wade, property managers can’t use shoddy upkeep, or any other policy, as an excuse not to fix one’s broken plumbing.

As for the lengthier, harder-to-pin issue of air quality, Wade resorted to CMHA’s involvement with Let’s Clear The Air. Meaning, they have, Wade said, “allowed the placement of air quality monitors across Lakeview Terrace.” As for official complaints