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Residents frustrated by smoking in HUD-funded housing say they ‘can’t afford anywhere else’

Por: Portland Press Herald Nation January 16, 2023

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Mary Ann Allen, a resident at Edgewood Apartments in Kennebunk, says that cigarette and marijuana smoke coming from other apartments in the building is affecting her health. She has COPD, asthma and cancer. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer Some days, the smell of cigarette and marijuana smoke is so strong in Mary Ann Allen’s non-smoking apartment building that she sleeps with the windows open, even when the temperature drops below freezing.... + full article



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