An HISD spokesperson didn't confirm the exact number of HISD schools affected by malfunctioning heaters, but emphasized that "a vast majority" of the district's 274 schools haven't had issues with campus heaters.
kind of stopped from reporting things like sewage leaks, maintenance problems, broken heaters. we talked to one disabled veteran who said that his heater hasn t worked for more than a year. he used his open stove for heat. these were the sort of issues that languished on the maintenance records for months. tell us more about the residents. talking about seniors, families with children? give us a bit of a demographic sketch. the majority of people that live there are elderly and disabled, so in the two complexes that we focused reporting on, it is predominantly seniors and disabled people, who pay about 200 to $500 a month in rent. these people are not getting their apartments for free, and what they re getting, what we heard time and time again, they re getting cockroach and mice infestations and leaking pipes that are taking forever to get fixed.