There is a problem when year after year after year, the same stories of horrid conditions 
come out of public housing complex for senior citizens that is set upon by elected officials every campaign season.
But that is exactly what is happening with the residents of the Robert King High and Haley Sofge buildings on Northwest 7th Street in Little Havana, across from Marlins Park.
Mold, rotting garbage, rat droppings, cockroaches, broken A/Cs, people sleeping in the stairwells, lack of security, zero maintenance and an overall feeling of abandonment has plagued this place, which has become a warehouse for our elderly voters, for years. Because every politician from city commission to state rep and congress member has been there at one time or another, stumping for surefire absentee ballot votes. Either they are blind to the deplorable conditions at these county public housing facilities or they don’t deliver on their promises.
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Ladra wrote stories about these conditions when she was a puppy at the Miami Herald 10 years or more ago. 
We wrote about the conditions again in Political Cortadito last year after Miami commission candidate Alex Dominguez brought the issue to my attention.
Fellow blogger Al Crespo also documented the deplorable conditions there in 2013 and went back to a few weeks ago to find it had not improved much. Sure, they are almost done with the exterior paint job — and one has to wonder if they’ve simply covered up the mold rather than removed it. But the other problems have gotten worse
Read more about it in the Crespogram Report.
“We can’t breathe,” said one old woman Crespo captured on video who said she suffered allergies and others with asthma were also bothered by the smell of rotting garbage.
Residents want to make the community at large aware of the fact that this problem continues and that nobody is really doing anything about it, so they are having a press conference Tuesday.
Gosh, Ladra hopes that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez
and Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, whose district the county housing facilities are located, got personal invitations to the press conference.
But just in case you didn’t, guys, it’s at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
But Ladra doubts they will show their faces after giving $9 million to the millionaire developer of Skyrise Miami, because that’s what they’d rather do with out public funds.
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