The director of the Orange Housing Authority said the Alexander Homes apartments, which are for the elderly and handicapped, were the only public housing units that flooded.
LaNita Brown said some of the apartments had about three inches of water and about two had six inches of water. Alexander Homes is at 2023 Fourth Street in East Town.
Brown said most of the public housing residents stayed through the evacuation. The old Arthur Robinson apartments on Burton Avenue are vacant. The James Zay Roberts Plaza apartments at Burton and Sixth Street were constructed after Hurricane Ike. The land was built up for the foundation and did apartments did not get flooded.
The Housing Authority of Orange also has apartments on Cove Drive in that neighborhood in south Orange. Brown said those apartments did not flood last week and did not flood during Hurricane Ike.
The housing authority has some rooms at Velma Jeter Manor in the Little Cypress area on Allie Payne Road that will be made available for the Alexander Homes residents who had water in their units. Brown, though, said at this time the Alexander Homes residents say they want to stay where they are.
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