The bedroom radiator is broken in the Roxbury apartment of Shareka Murdaugh, who is nine months' pregnant.
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
IN THE COLD
Heat a casualty in foreclosures
As Boston buildings are taken over by mortgage firms, tenants face slow repairs of systems and limited fuel deliveries
The bedroom radiator is broken in the Roxbury apartment of Shareka Murdaugh, who is nine months' pregnant.
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
Tenants in some foreclosed Boston apartment buildings are living without adequate heat because the new landlords - mortgage companies often based in other states - have not repaired broken systems or paid for the delivery of heating oil. (Full article: 1154 words)
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