A disabled woman in Treme is afraid if she sleeps in her bedroom she could wind up trapped under a heap of rubble. For weeks, she and her neighbors have been appealing to the city to tear down a building next door that's about to fall on her house.

You don't need to be a professional building inspector to see that her next door neighbor is a broken, abandoned house on Columbus Street near North Villere, which is about to collapse.

Neighbors are alarmed, and they've appealed to the city to tear it down.   

“We're concerned now about the lady next door, seems like it is about to fall on her house,” said Kelvin Barre.

The woman next door, 62-year-old Bonnie Jackson, can see the crumbling house through her kitchen window.

“Oh yes, we are in danger,” she said. “We are.”

She is on numerous medications after suffering two strokes that left her partially paralyzed, and she's afraid to sleep in her bedroom because that is where the house next door would fall if it collapses.

“I'm afraid it is going to fall in and hurt me,” she said.

Kelvin Barre says the broken down house keeps moving closer to Jackson's house.

Three days ago it wasn’t actually touching the house, so it's shifting actually as the days go by,” Barre said.

A month ago, City Council held a hearing about the city demolishing buildings after declaring them in imminent danger of collapse when they were not in danger of falling down. A crew tore down Cynthia Webb's house just days before she was notified she was approved for a grant to elevate the house.

So people here question, what's taking the city so long to tear down this house that clearly is an imminent danger to the neighbors.

“I thought that they had a project going they were getting rid of these houses. This should be top on the list,” Barre said.

Jackson said that someone with the city said they were going to tear the house down over a month ago.

Bonnie Jackson and her neighbors say they’re not only concerned about the condition of this building crumbling apart and possibly collapsing, they're also concerned about what goes inside here.  They say drug users and vagrants camp out in here, creating another kind of hazard right across the street front the school kids at McDonough 35.

“Yeah, they’re using it for a crack house now,” Barre said.

“You know I'm scared that the house will catch fire,” said Jackson. “And if it catches fire as close as it is, it will catch my house too.”

Friday, as Bonnie Jackson once again sleeps on her couch, she and her neighbors are hoping that their calls to city and Eyewitness News’ calls to Councilman James Carter will finally get the city to tear down this dangerous mess.

Late Friday Councilman Carter said he had city officials go out to the scene and assess the situation to make sure it is taken care of before the building collapses.

A couple hours later, a spokesman for Mayor Nagin said, "The property has now been determined to be in imminent danger of collapse," and it "will be demolished within the next several days, perhaps as soon as tomorrow."