Spartanburg Housing Authority Says Bed Bugs "Regretful …

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. -

An official on Friday called a costly bed bug clean up at a Spartanburg public housing complex "regretful," and vowed to make changes so that it doesn't happen, again.

The several weeks long bed bug clean up at Archibald Rutledge Apartments, which cost taxpayers $85,000, is expected to wrap up Friday night.

"The circumstances are certainly regretful," said Daryl Dalton, the executive director of the Spartanburg Housing Authority. "It's terrible that so many people lost so many items."

Dalton said over the past five years, the housing authority has spent about $100,000 on exterminators in its effort to rid the decades-old complex of a bed bug infestation.

He said the infestation was so widespread that it affected an adjacent senior center, where officials had to throw out much of the furniture.

"This is totally unacceptable," said Sandra Owensby, who manages the Senior Centers of Spartanburg County. "You know, denial is not a river in Egypt, and they were in denial about the bed bug problem for so long."

Dalton said there is a chance that if the housing authority acted sooner to combat the infestation, it may not have gotten to this point. "I certainly wish that we had been able to address the problem earlier on than what we did, and maybe if it had been done earlier on, we wouldn't have had to treat the entire building."

Dalton said the housing authority will now require tenants to report bed bug issues immediately. Under its new policy. it will not charge tenants for reporting bed bugs, which it said may have deterred tenants from reporting problems in the past.

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