infestation

In December, tenants at one building alleged vermin infestations, broken elevators and sewage leaks in a lawsuit.

Recent investigations by the Times into Skid Row Housing Trust and Aids Healthcare Foundation revealed properties managed by the two nonprofits were plagued by heating, elevator and electricity failures as well as vermin infestations.

Complaints about a lack of hot water, power outages, roach infestations and mold contamination have gone unanswered, according to tenants.

Refuse workers started an all-out strike in March and residents began to complain about infestations of "cat-sized rats" as uncollected waste piled up on city streets.

Reports of infestations have been a headline writer and meme maker's dream, but the rodents have proven surprisingly difficult to capture on film.