Gerald Bouldin, 12, carries cardboard boxes for his mother at their rented house on McMicken Avenue Over-the-Rhine on Sept, 14, 2018. April Austin and her four children stayed at the residents for two months before they were asked to pay $1,000 a month in rent. "It smelled of mold, and you could tell people were doing drugs like crack cocaine. I grew up in a household (like that), so I knew what it smelled like, as well as cigarettes. It was all in the walls, like the walls smelled of cigarettes," she said.