Black mold streaks the red house where Ferdricka Pleasant lives, and the wood helping to hold up the house is so rotten that officials who recently inspected pushed in a screwdriver with their hands.
Her room is cold in the winter because a window doesn’t close properly — the wooden frame around it is rotten, said Pleasant, 16.
Her grandmother gets pneumonia, or something, from breathing all that mold, she said.
But that’s just one of the houses in the village of Quinahagak that are rotting away.
Ten homes that received an in-depth review recently may be unsafe for occupancy, according to a report by the Cold Climate Housing Research Center, a Fairbanks-based nonprofit and PDC Engineering Inc.
The homes had “prolific” mold and unsound structures because they were built poorly and updated improperly, allowing the soggy Bering Sea weather to degrade the homes, the report said.
“These homes literally never have an opportunity to dry,” the report said.
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Her room is cold in the winter because a window doesn’t close properly — the wooden frame around it is rotten, said Pleasant, 16.
Her grandmother gets pneumonia, or something, from breathing all that mold, she said.
But that’s just one of the houses in the village of Quinahagak that are rotting away.
Ten homes that received an in-depth review recently may be unsafe for occupancy, according to a report by the Cold Climate Housing Research Center, a Fairbanks-based nonprofit and PDC Engineering Inc.
The homes had “prolific” mold and unsound structures because they were built poorly and updated improperly, allowing the soggy Bering Sea weather to degrade the homes, the report said.
“These homes literally never have an opportunity to dry,” the report said.
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