Saturday, December 10, 2011

Ujima Village residents have had toxic relationship with complex

Ujima Village residents have had toxic relationship with complex
http://www.wavenewspapers.com/news/local/Ujima-Village-residents-have-had-toxic-relationship-with-complex-135331638.html

"They lived in Ujima Village, some of them for decades, before they suspected something was wrong.
While attorneys fight in the courtroom against the County of Los Angeles and several other entities, many residents who lived in and around the shuttered Ujima Village complex are left to wonder whether their health problems are the result of toxic contamination.

Formerly the Athens Tank Farm between the 1920s and 1960s, the site was acquired from ExxonMobil and transformed into an apartment housing complex in 1972, with financing from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The site was later sold by HUD to the Los Angeles County Housing Authority and the Community Development Commissioners (the five sitting Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors at the time) for $1."

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