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Lack of BGE bills has some public housing tenants facing eviction

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 01/11/10

It's cold and dark inside Patricia Calhoun's home on Bowman Court.

Joshua McKerrow — The Capital Patricia Calhoun opens her bills from the Annapolis Housing Authority and puzzles over the utility charges for her home on Bowman Court. Calhoun and some other residents there are billed for their utilities through the housing agency, not Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., which is causing some confusion and headaches for residents.
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The heating and lights are functioning, but she tries not to use them. She's afraid that her already-high utility costs will go up even more.

"Sometimes we freeze in here because I won't turn the heat on," Calhoun said.

She's certainly not alone in trying to curtail expenses this frigid winter, but she's among a group of Annapolis public housing residents caught in a web of utility problems.

She and her neighbor, Esther Sharps, approached The Capital with a problem: Their utility bills are inconsistent, and they are...

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