She said in the past she faced the same issues in her previous apartment but requested to move after her daughter was diagnosed with severe asthma. Bessard said in the past she had put up with these concerns with the mold and mildew but the recent incident after returning home from an eight day cruise she returned it was the last straw.
“My daughter comes and shows me a little decorative item of her dress. It was covered with green mold,” she said. Bessard said.
She then started going around her apartment inspecting everything and just about all throughout the interior it was covered with mold and mildew.
“My personal belongings and the interior walls and everything that belongs to Live Oak,” she explained.
Despite reaching out to management and taking pictures she said she was informed her personal belongings would be clean. However, Bessard expressed she wasn’t satisfied.
“You’re not going to say you’re going to test this mold?” Bessard asked. “You’re not going to send out a professional company to come bust these walls to see what’s going on behind it? She basically told me no. So here we are.”
Bessard also added that she is not the only resident experiencing this is problem and hopes to see a change for the better in the future.
“It’s ridiculous. Some of these apartments back here they’re in deplorable conditions and people shouldn’t be afraid to speak up but I get it. I’m going to speak up if you have to take just me to speak for all these tenants back here,” Bessard said. “I feel like just because some of them don’t probably properly take care of their apartment, they are still human beings. These people have young kids back here. They still need to be treated equally regardless of how they have the conditions of the apartment or whatever. It doesn’t matter. Everybody needs to be treated equally. I have been living in Live Oak Manor for the majority of all my life. It is not the best of living, but I have never in my 42 years of living experience the deplorable conditions that I’m experiencing now in Live Oak, especially with these mildew and mold.”
A statement from councilwoman Terry Broussard expressed the following:
“For quite sometime now Live Oak Manor has had many issues ranging from management, lack of services, and unkept apartments with the latest complaint being mold infested apartments.
I take issue with families that are having to live in unsafe and unhealthy dwellings. It should be Live Oak Manor’s mission to ensure that every tenant is safe and can live healthy lives.
I encourage all tenants to report mold issues if they have any and it is my hope that there be no retaliation from owners of property or the management.”
–Councilwoman Terry Broussard of District D
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