Cold water plagues Mayor Wright residents

Three-year-old Mayreen Miecho shivers and wraps a towel tightly around herself as she steps out of the shower in her public housing apartment, trying to recover from the frigid water.

She didn’t want to take a cold shower. She had no choice.

Only cold water streams from most showers and sink spigots at Mayor Wright public housing, a chilling daily reminder to its low-income residents that their basic need for hot water has been ignored by the government.