We're continuing our coverage tonight on a troubled public housing complex in Atlantic City.

Congressman Jeff Van Drew today met with residents of Stanley Holmes Village where more than 100 people who live there sued more than two years ago over a lack of heat, hot water and other poor living conditions, a situation they say has yet to be resolved and for some has only gotten worse.

Van Drew's visit comes after he asked HUD, that's the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, to take over.

But the head of the agency abruptly stepped down.

Ted Goldberg reports.

We have to be together, shoulder to shoulder, saying we're not going to put up with it.

Congressman Jeff Van Drew is stepping up his involvement in the battle over poor living conditions at Stanley Homes Village.

The second District representative is calling for the inspector general of HUD to investigate the Atlantic City Housing Authority, or ACHA.

They manage Stanley Holmes village, where residents have long complained about problems with heat, gas and mice.

People are breaking their back, paying taxes.

They deserve to know that nobody lives taking care of older folks like this lady or folks that need help.

But it's got to go to help them.

And we don't know where it's going.

And we know that everything is going sideways.

I have no heat, no water.

And they spend months as cold, no heat and no hot water this morning.

We have no business at this time.

This is our.

One.

Excuse me.

One at a time.

Yes, I guess.

What are we supposed to do?

It's getting ridiculous.

People got to go to work for us.

Never.

Nobody wants to keep carrying hot too hot water upstairs.

Stanley Holmes is the state's oldest public housing complex and more than 100 of its residents are suing the ACHA over their living conditions.

They say money has been wasted on bad contracting work and other problems have been ignored.

We all have certain rights.

This is the 21st century.

And to hear what's going on in this housing complex, it's just wrong.

It disgusts me and it makes me angry.

Even members of the academy chimed in.

Charmaine Hall, a board member who lives in a property managed by the ACHA, says the rest of the board has been disrespectful in their dealings with residents.

And communication has been inconsistent at best.

They always look at us like being mad and angry or we being combative, but they don't understand what we're living through because none of them want a commissioner board left.

This isn't a Republican issue.

It's not a Democrat issue.

It's not a political issue.

It is a human issue.

What part is going to be torn down and what's not?

You know, are we going to be still have a home to stuff does need to be torn down.

And we do need new housing and it needs to be seamless.

The board applied to have Stanley Homes demolished in November, but four months later, residents say they don't know if that means they'll need to look for a new home.

Residents tell me they've written to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, but they haven't heard back.

Fudge announced earlier this week that she would resign.

A week from today.

She just wasn't doing the job for us.

We contacted them.

We finally got the audit done.

But then when we said, Man, this isn't enough.

We can't wait another six months and another six months.

Van Drew says a criminal investigation into the act could be a big help for residents.

If that's no good, he says, Congress could get involved and pass laws affecting local housing authorities or accountability.

It's really obvious when you see what happened in New York City after the inspector general look there, think about 70.

Some people were in on it and 70 some people getting money in their pockets.

And sure enough.

Later this month, Stanley Village residents plan on taking a bus to Washington to tell more people about their issues.

We reached out to the ACHA for comment on this story but didn't hear back in Atlantic City.

I'm Ted Goldberg.

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