Jeanette Knightner has lived at 341 Perry Street for the past four years. She says her BMHA apartment flooded in 2015, and she has seen the walls deteriorate ever since. About a year ago, she says a chunk of the wall hit her teenage son while he was showering.

"The piece of the circle where it's gone, it fell on him," Knightner said.

Knightner says a maintenance manager and a HUD representative came in earlier this year and said repairs would be made. After months of hearing nothing further, she says she then spoke to a new maintenance manager.

"He came in, and he took pictures of it. He did tell me I was an immediate transfer, but it's been two and a half months and I'm still sitting here, so I felt I needed to take action," Knightner said.

Knightner called community activist Nate Boyd, who has filmed Facebook Live videos at several other BMHA apartments in recent months. Over the weekend, Boyd posted a video with Knightner, showing the deterioration and bubbling of the walls in the bathroom and bedrooms.

Tuesday, the BMHA told them that they would move Knightner into another apartment.

"Maybe it's just the power of the people, all the views, all the comments, all the shares," Boyd said.

BMHA Executive Director Gillian Brown confirmed they are moving Knightner to a new apartment, saying that serious wall and plaster issues made for unsafe living conditions. BMHA also cleaned up standing water and debris that flooded the building's basement after Boyd highlighted it in his video.

"They literally sucked all that water out of there, and all of that debris is gone, and that door is closed. That door was open for over three years," Boyd said.

Boyd says he will continue to help bring awareness to substandard conditions whenever he has the opportunity.

"This stuff has gotta be addressed. Gotta speak on it. You know what I mean? Not trying to gain enemies. Just trying to get help for these people. My people. Our people," Boyd said.