And six years on, her death remains a mystery as questions swirl around how she managed to get herself into the garbage chute that led to her horrific death.
Residents say the heat has functioned intermittently, the elevators are out of service every other day and one tenant claimed the garbage chute in his building had been sealed shut.
Dogs fouled the walkways, garbage chutes were blocked, vandals damaged communal bins, stairwells, lifts and multi-storey residential car parks joined the list of problems.