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Senior housing problems post-Ida expose lack of planning

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20210907 18:11:00

martin, as i understand it, you are outside the flint goodridge apartments where many senior citizens lived and two people were found dead after a city inspection. of course, this is part of a multi-death investigation there. so what do you know? reporter: yeah, this is really what is now continuing to grow as that tragedy that came after the initial disaster, which was the storm itself. that s what happened to senior citizens. in this particular case in new orleans, they knew that there were a number of apartment buildings that for the most part their residents are all senior citizens. so the city decided five days after the storm they better go check on the welfare. so they put together strike teams and they went building by building and they went room by room. what they found was just terrible conditions in which many elderly people who relied on machines like oxygen machines to keep them alive or their electric wheel chairs to move were trapped and unable to use those machines,

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