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Cypress Gardens
Cypress Gardens
April 26, 2015 - Teira Brown, 1, wheezes as she sleeps on a moldy mattress in her Cypress Gardens apartment in North Memphis. Brown's 23-year-old mother, Naya, moved the family into the unit three years ago. Brown and her four daughters suffer from breathing problems. "When I'm at home and I wake up, I feel weak, I feel sick all the time, " says Naya Brown. "My kids get sick, like, all the time. It can't be anything, but the mold and other stuff that's in here. It's not livable, not at all." (Yalonda M. James/The Commercial Appeal)

