EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) -
The Evansville Housing Authority has a plan to get rid of bed bugs at two of its apartment buildings.
However, the cleaning process is getting mixed reviews from tenants.
The infested buildings are Kennedy Tower and Buckner Tower, both in downtown Evansville.
The Housing Authority has a plan to get rid of the blood-sucking bugs, but not everyone is convinced that the plan will work.
"Don't bring more in here. Find a solution outside buildings," said Linda Groves.
Groves lives in Kennedy Tower and is not happy that neighboring residents at Buckner Tower will be bringing their bed bug infested belongings into her building for the next two months.
It's all part of the plan put in motion by the Evansville Housing Authority to eliminate the bed bug problem from both buildings.
For the next seven weeks residents from Buckner will pack up and do their laundry at Kennedy while pest control crews work to rid their apartments of bed bugs.
It's not a plan Groves is buying.
"After all this is done and we go back to Kennedy, I mean over to Buckner to do our laundry, I said what's going to say that the people who got bed bugs here don't carry them back over to Buckner and it just keeps getting done over and over," Groves said.
More than 240 apartments in both buildings will be treated for the infestation.
"These are safety concerns and health concerns, so everyone has to comply," said Rick Moore, the Executive Director of the Evansville Housing Authority.
Even tenants like Gordon Ray who have been told their units are bed bug free.
"They've checked my apartment. I'm bed bug clean. I've got a handicapped wife that can't get around and what they're going to do is make us move our stuff out," Ray said.
The EHA says residents will only be displaced from their home for about four hours. The sweep of both buildings is expected to take at least 90 days.
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