Bullets came flying through the walls of teenager Kamia Feazell’s south Jackson apartment shortly after she moved there with her mother.
The ninth grader was standing in her bedroom in their second-floor unit early one morning when a bullet whizzed past her neck and through a wooden door, sending splinters into her face.
She screamed and dropped to the floor, thinking she’d been shot.
“Those bullets came right through my bedroom walls and ricocheted throughout the place,” said Latisha Feazell, a resident of Pine Ridge Gardens Apartments, better known as Rebelwood, in south Jackson, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2025. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayAt first, she had trouble sleeping after the incident. But Feazell has since adjusted to routine gunfire at Pine Ridge Gardens, better known as Rebelwood – one of the most troubled apartment complexes in Jackson.
“I’m not scared anymore,” said Feazell, who recently graduated high school. “I hear a shot, ‘Oh they’re shooting in the back.’ That’s it.”
But she does wish management would patch the other bullet holes in their walls: in the kitchen cabinet next to where they keep cereal boxes, a foot away from their living room window, beside the front door.
These scars represent just a sliver of the grim housing conditions plaguing some of the more than 400 residents of this federally subsidized complex. Mold and mildew. Electrical problems. Broken windows. Rusty appliances. Water leaks.
These hazards are not a secret. City, state and federal officials who oversee Rebelwood know the complex is plagued. They’ve documented the issues in police reports and physical inspection forms.
Pine Ridge Gardens resident Mary Sawyer believes shoddy repair work has resulted in black mold entering her bathroom at the complex better known as Rebelwood, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayBut their oversight has so far failed to result in lasting improvements to the perennially troubled complex – a result, experts say, of low inspection standards and weak enforcement.
The deficiencies persist even as regulators have required Rebelwood’s owners to make repairs.
In 2023, Rebelwood passed its most recent routine inspection by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development with a score of 78 out of 100. HUD records show the inspection identified life-threatening issues with the complex, but a spokesperson for the agency would not provide information about the violation.
“Does it look like a 78?” said Bridgett Simmons, an attorney with the National Housing Law Project.
“These cabinets were just like this when I moved in here,” said Pine Ridge Gardens resident Stephanie Taylor, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. “I keep asking and nothing gets done.” The complex is better known as Rebelwood. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayThe complex is also overseen by the Mississippi Home Corporation, a state housing finance authority that awarded affordable housing tax credits to a previous owner of the complex. During Rebelwood’s last routine inspection in 2018, the agency gave the complex three tries and six months to correct the issues, such as a burned floor, broken window panes and roaches.
Based on the authority’s inspection cycle, Rebelwood should have been reinspected by now. But Scott Spivey, the Mississippi Home Corporation president, said work pauses during the COVID-19 pandemic created a backlog. Two days after Mississippi Today submitted a public records request for inspection and audits, Mississippi Home Corporation scheduled an inspection for later this month.
Even if the inspection finds problems at Rebelwood, Spivey said his agency lacks the ability to take stronger action for older complexes like Rebelwood because the greatest enforcement capability it has is to ban them from seeking future tax credits – something owners may have no intention of pursuing, anyway.
“Our tools for enforcement, our arsenal, is vastly compromised,” Spivey said.
Jackson is far from the only city to struggle with upkeeping its affordable housing stock. But Simmons said that is no excuse when “people, in particular the tenants at this property, are being harmed.”
Mayor John Horhn created a housing task force in July, soon after he took office. His action was spurred in part by water shutoffs at complexes where landlords had failed to pay their water bills.
“No landlord should put a family in harm’s way,” Horhn declared during his State of the City address in October.
Mold spreading from a vent in Latisha Feazell’s bathroom, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Feazell is a five-year resident of the Pine Ridge Gardens apartments in south Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today “This medicine cabinet was just like this when I moved in here. I asked, but as you can see, it’s never been fixed or replaced. It’s rusty and all the mirror isn’t even there,” said Latisha Feazell, a 5-year resident at the Pine Ridge Gardens apartments in south Jackson, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today Decedric Ferguson, left, and Cleveland “Bozo” Colbert at the Pine Ridge Gardens apartments in south Jackson, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. The men are members of Operation Good Foundation, a community-based violence prevention organization. The group patrols the complex, better known as Rebelwood, with the intent of de-escalating violent situations. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today “We’ll shower, but we don’t take baths in this tub. Every time I clean it, whatever those stains are and that black mold stuff, comes right back. I’ve asked over and over for a new tub, and nothing,” said Pine Ridge Gardens resident Stephanie Taylor, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025 in the south Jackson complex better known as Rebelwood. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today “I think that stuff is black mold. And I know it’s why me and my baby are sick right now, always coughing and sneezing,” said Pine Ridge Gardens resident Stephanie Taylor, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, at the south Jackson complex better known as Rebelwood. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayHence then, the article about regulators say jackson s notorious rebelwood is habitable despite mold leaks faulty electricity and lots of bullet holes was published today ( ) and is available on Mississippi Today ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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