About nine months after one of the deadliest fires ever in The Bronx, Vernessa Cunningham says that she’s still fighting to regain what she lost.
and displaced dozens on January 9, had been living first in a Ramada Inn and then a Best Western Plus, both in the South Bronx.
A spokesperson for City Hall, speaking on background, told THE CITY that most of the Twin Parks families have found new apartments and just three remain in hotels, including two that have been connected to permanent housing. The spokesperson said that the remaining family’s stay at their hotel would be extended past October 5 if necessary.
The City Hall spokesperson said that families all had offers to have their apartments restored, and that Cunningham’s visit would have come before a vacate order was lifted sometime in April, so what she saw in her apartment would not have represented what she would have returned to. While the City Hall spokesperson said this week that families were all also offered the opportunity to move to another apartment in the building, Cunningham said she never received any such offer.
The city worker found the permanent housing options offered to her were too expensive — over $1,900 for a one-bedroom — and in neighborhoods that she felt were too dangerous for someone who works the midnight shift.In May, Cunningham says that she told her BronxWorks case worker she was pursuing buying a home instead. “Because [of] everything they was offering, I told her that it would be best because the rents is too high.
The majority of the families that have been successfully relocated in new apartments are receiving housing vouchers and were placed in La Central, a new rental community in the South Bronx, according to a City Hall spokesperson.Cunningham has been staying with a friend in the Fordham area of The Bronx since leaving her hotel, sleeping on a sofa bed.
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