At 92-years-old, Beryl Austin expected to be living in a nice retirement home with clean rooms and freshly washed sheets as she watched re-runs of the Matlock show; never did she imagine she would be fetching buckets of water from a faeces-surrounded pipe to flush a dirty out-of-order toilet.
Austin is a resident at the Chase’s Indigent Home on Robb Street, Georgetown. She has spent the last 20 years living in a small room with a single bed under a leaky roof. Her view of the city is the brick wall of a newly constructed retail store,