NEW ALBANY, Ind. — The New Albany Housing Authority failed its federal inspection in 2024 after inspectors found over 100 deficiencies in 30 apartments and ordered immediate repairs for many deficiencies.
A whistleblower says some of those fixes were only meant to fool future inspectors.
One of the common findings across the complex during the 2024 inspection was faulty outlets that weren’t wired correctly or weren’t working. But a whistleblower says his bosses ordered him to make unsafe repairs designed to fool inspectors.
Melanie Malone has lived at the Parkview Terrace complex for four years. She depends on affordable housing because she’s too sick to work.
“It’s all right, but they got little mice and then (the) electricity in the kitchen. It just doesn’t work. And then I can’t even use my fireplace because it caught fire in the wall,” Malone said.
She says the plug for the electric fireplace in the living room caused burn marks. When she called maintenance, they told her not to plug in the fireplace anymore.
“It was a three-prong, and they changed it to a two,” Malone said.
Malone’s apartment was one of 24 reviewed at the Parkview Terrace complex by Housing and Urban Development inspectors in August 2024. The inspection didn’t go well. The complex failed.
One of the report’s consistent findings was ground fault circuit interrupting outlets that were missing or wired incorrectly. Those...
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