Waiting for a home: Decay and damage plague Ansonia's Riverside residents

Sunshine Onidi is photographed in the bathroom of her apartment at Riverside Apartments in Ansonia where mold is growing and paint is peeling behind her. Arnold Gold/Register

By Phyllis Swebilius
Register Staff
ANSONIA — Urine on the landings, bugs, peeling paint, mold in the bathrooms: some Riverside Apartments tenants are ready to move.
But they’ve still got months, if not years, to wait.
Jimmy Miller, the new interim executive director of the Ansonia Housing Authority, which owns the complex, said he hopes to have south-side residents moved out of the Olson Drive complex by the time school starts in September.
He said recently it could take three or four years to raze and redevelop the four-building south side, and then five to seven years for the north side.

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Paint has peeled off of a wall in a bedroom at Sunshine Onidi's apartment at Riverside Apartments in Ansonia. Arnold Gold/Register