Seniors die waiting for city repairs

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The city’s senior home repair program, run out of MOHCD, has done repairs on just 3 homes in two years—and keeps putting elderly applicants through interminable paperwork, inexplicable errors, and bureaucratic delays. Joe Eskenazi looks into a process so dysfunctional that at least two homeowners enrolled in the program died before repairs were even begun.

Meanwhile, fourteen luckier grandmas battled their tamales against empanadas, and platos de arroz against short ribs, at an “Abuelita Cookoff” on 24th and Capp. The event was intended to boost visitors to the city-sanctioned market there, though free samples of holiday home cooking seemed more popular than vendors’ wares.

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