A New York City mother, whose four-year-old son was one of the thousands of kids in the city who wound up with lead poisoning, had some harsh words for Mayor Bill de Blasio over his failure to handle lead in city housing projects.
Sherron Paige, who works for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), told the New York Post on Friday she was furious at city health officials who revealed this week that more than 1,1oo children residing in the city’s housing projects —including her son Kyan—have suffered from lead poisoning since 2012.
“[Mayor] de Blasio doesn’t care. I think he is still taking it lightly,” Paige said. “Kyan is not de Blasio’s kid, so why would he care? He doesn’t have the conditions that we live in, he doesn’t need to worry about NYCHA coming to fix things.”
Paige is one of many parents suing the New York City mayor and the NYCHA for covering up instances of lead poisoning.
The agency had been accused of covering up squalid conditions in its projects and failing to conduct regular lead inspections, prompting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to pay $2.2 billion of city money to settle the allegations from federal authorities.
The housing authority also pledged in April to spend $32 million on high-tech rat extermination methods the same day de Blasio and other housing authority workers failed to kill a rat using the new methods.
New York City’s housing authority has also suffered from bad press this week after a report released Monday revealed that NYCHA employees had turned a Bronx housing project into a sex club where employees threw wild orgies in vacant spaces throughout the building—including empty apartments.
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