Crystal Towers apartments

For about 30 years, Lea Nading has provided horticultural therapy for Winston-Salem’s most vulnerable residents. This past month, she and other volunteers led holiday wreath-making workshops around town.

Residents of Crystal Towers in Winston-Salem protested delayed repairs at the 201-unit affordable housing complex last year.

Repairs at Crystal Towers face a possible delay as an additional part is needed for one of its two elevators.

Around 40 tenants and housing activists of a downtown housing complex gathered at a Housing Authority of Winston-Salem, or HAWS, meeting Tuesday to protest delayed repairs.

Housing advocates met with Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines Tuesday to demand repairs be made to Crystal Towers apartments. The tenants' organization,…