Fighting Back: How some CT tenants are organizing to improve their housing.

Bouncing as she walked, plastic heels clacking on the concrete as she swished her colorful “Encanto” costume, 4-year-old Ayla pointed to the sidewalk in front of her.

"Watch out for the holes,” she warned.

Ayla — not her real name — has lived in the Wedgewood Apartments in Bloomfield nearly all her life. (The CT Mirror/CT Public agreed to the family’s request not to identify the child.)

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