“I was living on a remediation site but didn’t know it until I was so sick that I thought I could be dying.”
The warning was one line about “agricultural chemicals” near the back of the resident handbook. State regulators let toxic soil stay on site under a thin fabric and called it a tree protection zone. Her heart rate dropped when she moved in and recovered when she left. The landlord fills 1,800 units on cheap industrial land, and tenants find out from their cardiologist.