Representatives came to her door, contacted her by letter and called meetings with her daughter, according to McLeod and her lawyer, Joseph DiNoto.
"This rises to a level of harassment," DiNoto said. "I sent a letter to PHA saying, 'Please back off.' I sent them copies of doctors' records and reports.
"This is an elderly woman who lives by herself in her apartment and you're disturbing her. They really should let her alone and let her live for the time she has left."
Dixon-Sutler said that her mother was happy at the apartment building until she began refusing the renovations. Now, she said, her mom has literally worried herself sick.
"She shakes. She doesn't realize it. Her lips shake, her hands shake," Dixon-Sutler said.
Even if things work out for her mom, as PHA has promised, Dixon-Sutler worries for others in similar situations.
"If it was necessary and it wasn't going to harm her, my mother would have been the first one to comply," she said. "But if they tried to evict her over this, I'm afraid they'll do it to somebody else."
