"Unbearably hot ... it's not even like a sauna, it's hotter than that."
Josephine Thomas and her three year old son struggle in summer at the Newtown Park Apartments.
"You can't sleep, my son's up, I'm up, we're kept up because of the heat."
There was only one option when it got too much, she said.
"Escape. Escape my own home which I pay for every week."
With the sun beating in and little to no air flow, residents took desperate measures: tinfoiling window panes, permanently closing the drapes, and avoiding cooking.
The evening was the hottest, but that was when people wanted to be home the most and cook dinner, Thomas said. Read more
She and other tenants would take their food and families elsewhere.
Thomas was dreading next summer, and said she felt sad for her son and fellow tenants.
"We want solutions, we don't want to keep having to put up with this, it's not good enough," she said. Read more