People who lived in a burned building in northwest Miami have been living at the Betty Ferguson Recreation Complex in Miami Gardens for nearly 10 days.
A woman displaced by the fire says it is ‘a nightmare, there is no kind of help for those who were the owners’.
His mother, an 81-year-old woman, owned one of 75 apartments in the building on NW 177th Street, which last month was nearly consumed by flames.
“Only she gets $700 Social Security, now she can’t afford what they call low-income housing.”
But she is not the only one in this situation, Rita, another displaced person, says that “today is number 20, day 20, that we are in a shelter. We are not looking for it, we are not asking for it, we are victims and those responsible do not respond.
Without answers and indignant, because after the accident they learned that the property was not insured against fire; Although, according to him, the building manager was recently in the process of receiving a recertification for the 40 years of construction.
“We no longer need an answer but a solution. At the moment, we feel the pressure of the Red Cross very strongly with the daily greetings: he has already found a place to go,” explains Rita.
But without financial resources and with exorbitant rents, it is impossible for them to find accommodation.
Currently, 52 of the 200 displaced people continue to live in Red Cross shelters, including some pets, until these families find a new safe place to live.