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PEARL, MS (Mississippi News Now) -

Some residents of Pearl are fired up because of a bed bug infestation problem at their apartment complex.

Tenants say the problem has been going on for years at the Colonial Terrace Apartments, but why hasn't it been fixed?

We first reported bed bug problems at Colonial Terrace back in 2012. Now more people have called 3 On Your Side seeking help.

Gwen Roberson, was one of those calls. She showed us the furniture she had to toss because her apartment is full of bed bugs.

"They're everywhere crawling through the walls, crawling through my furniture," Roberson explained. "I had to throw my kids bed set out, I had to throw away my living room set."

She's lived at Colonial Terrace for 7 months and says the bed bug infestation is getting worse. Her son is now covered in bites.

"My son had been coming to me for a couple of months now with bite marks on him but I didn't realize what they were," said Roberson. "I thought they were mosquito bites."

Other tenants have also come forward and given us photos.

"They have sprayed my house three different times and I'm still infested with them," said one tenant.

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Sixty-eight-year-old Vietnam veteran Karl Epperson thought his fighting days were done, but for the past three months he has been in the heat of battle, a battle with bedbugs.

"You can't sleep because they come up in the bed with you," said Epperson.

A short-sleeved shirt revealed raspberry-sized bug bites that spotted his arms.

Epperson has lived in the privately owned Overlook Apartments in the Westside for nearly a decade, but contemplates moving because of the creepy crawlers.

Overlook management officials could not be reached for comment.

At least a dozen bedbug infestations in Chattanooga hotels and public places have been reported to the Hamilton County Health Department within the past two years, said Bonnie Deakins, director of environmental health.

The Health Department gives hotels with infestations 10 days to get rid of them and the hotel has to close the infested room until they do.

Bedbugs don't carry disease, Deakins said, but they are hard to exterminate. The problem is getting to them. They're in the cracks of the walls, inside the mattress and in the bed, said Deakins.

"It's been a big problem within the past eight years or so," she said. "For years we didn't see them but apparently they've become resistant to the pesticides."

Epperson said that Overlook Apartment officials called an exterminating company for his unit but that they didn't eliminate the pests. There are scuff marks on his wall from where he has tried to kill some with bug spray and a fly swatter.

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Harold Shirley never had seen a bed bug before moving to the Milshire Hotel three years ago. Now his arms are covered in bites, and he has to take sleeping pills at night because the bugs wake him up. The building is thoroughly infested, and he said he doesn't have the money to move.

"When I wake up, they're in my ears and my nose," he stated in a letter to management of the Milshire, 2525 N. Milwaukee Ave., a single-room occupancy building in Logan Square.

Shirley and a handful of other Milshire tenants went to court Tuesday morning trying to make an unusual argument against their eviction: The bed bug infestation at the building is so bad that making residents leave would be a public hazard.

"The lawyers' and tenants' complaint is, in part, that to ask the tenants to move out is a violation of the bed bug ordinance because they will be asked to take this issue that hasn't been addressed and spread it across the city to wherever they move to," said Terry Enright, an activist with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association who has been working with Milshire residents.

It's one of the latest tussles in months of discussion over single-room occupancy buildings such as the Milshire. SROs generally rent small bedrooms with shared kitchens and bathrooms. Not all are in bad condition, like the Milshire, but their tenants are generally very low-incomeAld. Walter Burnett Jr. (27th) said they are sometimes "one step from being homeless."

SROs have grown scarce in Chicago as developers buy the buildings, evict the tenants and rent remodeled units at market rates. Chicago has lost 30 SRO buildings to redevelopment since the beginning of 2009, according to the city. Now, there are 73 licensed SROs left.

An ordinance backed by Mayor Emanuel to halt SRO conversions citywide passed a City Council committee Wednesday morning. If the full Council approves it, the city will not issue permits to redevelop SROs for six months or until permanent SRO legislation is passed, whichever comes first.

That will leave the SROs officially in limbo, a state that Milshire residents know something about.

"Till this plays out, [we] don't know what's gonna happen, don't know what's gonna go on," said Frederick Bartels, who has lived at the Milshire for seven years. "So basically, yeah. We are in limbo."

Bartels and his fellow residents were told in late April that the Milshire was closing and that they would have to move. Rumors circulated that the building would be sold. Some residents vacated; about 25 to 40 long-term residents remain. Some of them formed a tenants union and, with the help of the Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, filed the legal complaint about the conditions at the Milshire.

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