2525 Texas Street has had its share of trouble lately. According to the city web site, there have been 88 police calls in the last six months... from loud music to murder.

Yet some say they are more afraid of what's lurking inside their apartments than out ... mold ... and no matter what they try, it just keeps coming back.

Camesha Hudson and her two children couldn't take it anymore. They moved out because of this: mold everywhere ... from the cushions on the dinette set ... to an easy chair. It grows on the clothes in her kids' closet and even on her daughter's favorite baby dolls. It grows so fast, she says, she can't keep up.

"I clean, I clean, I clean, I'm a clean person, but it's constantly coming back to the point that I had to throw away a lot of things," Hudson said, "It's really sad."

"You don't feel like your children are safe here?"

"No, ma'am. Not at all."

Hudson lives at the Sunrise Place Apartments which is a HUD contracted section 8 development. We visited several apartments here and everywhere we went the stories were the same, management may come and clean, maybe even paint but the mold keeps coming back.

Asthma and allergy specialist Dr. Ronald Saff says mold doesn't usually make people sick, but it can make folks miserable.

"Some people who are extra sensitive will develop mold induced hay fever symptoms runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, maybe some mold induced wheezing, coughing shortness of breath," Saff said.

Saff says mold inside usually means a water leak somewhere or a faulty air conditioning system that should be fixed fast.

The Code of Federal Regulations requires that HUD housing "have proper venitliation, and be free of mold."

Linda Dunklin says she's called everyone she can and no one seems to have the power to do anything about it. Folks here, she says just don't have the money to move.

"It doesn't matter if your rent is 0 or 500 dollars you are a human being and you shouldn't have to live less than a pig, live like that in slop," Dunklin said.

We tried to get some answers too.

The Florida Department of Health says it does not inspect or monitor mold at public or private apartments. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation says it does monitor mold-like substances but only in common areas, not in individual apartments.

A woman who answered the phone at Sunrise Place had no comment.

The contract administrator, North Tampa Housing Development, referred us to HUD.

We spoke with Earl Cox, HUD's chief counsel in North Florida and Linda Koros, a supervisory project manager for asset management in multi-family housing.

They said HUD has received just three mold complaints on a hotline and is not aware of any significant mold problems at the complex or any structutal problems that may be causing it.

Koros says Sunrise Place is inspected once a year and during its most recent inspection in January it scored 96 out of 100.