Department of Neighborhood Services will begin inspecting public housing buildings Monday [Video]

After years of complaints of rodents, roaches and mold city inspectors with the Department of Neighborhood Services will start inspecting Housing Authority-owned buildings Monday. Public housing tenants, like Carmella Holloway, worked with advocacy organization and nonprofit Common Ground to bring the change. Holloway has lived at College Court near 35th and Highland for 17 years. “When I first got here it was such a lovely place. Now it’s gone to hell,” Holloway said.Holloway said that for at least three years, she has been dealing with a bed bug infestation in her apartment. The bugs are in her bedsheets, in her tub and crawling on the floor.”They were in my ear. They crawled in my ear during the process of me sleeping at night,” Holloway said. “I haven’t been to sleep for like three or four weeks. I haven’t been asleep at all, even in the daytime. I’m a walking time …