Motherfucking Slumlords

First he was attacked by intruders and paralyzed. Then his building’s elevator went on the fritz. Then he ran short of money for the $80 to get four men to carry him down the stairs. And we forgot to mention the cancer:

Not only is Willie Freeman a prisoner in his own body, he is now a prisoner in his own home.

Freeman, 59, has been paralyzed from the neck down for almost 20 years, but that wouldn’t necessarily trouble him at this point if his elevator worked.

And that wouldn’t be a complete disaster if he wasn’t suffering from colon cancer. Since May, he hasn’t received regular chemotherapy or radiation treatment because he can’t get out of his home, he said.

“Cancer is eating away at me, and I can’t get out to save my life,” said Freeman, who used to install carpets before an attack by intruders in his home left him handicapped.

He’s only been able to afford the $80 it costs to pay four men to carry him up and down from his third-floor apartment a few times, he said.

The owner of the Bedford-Stuyvesant building at 300 Putnam Ave., Bedford Throop Housing Development Fund Corp., abandoned repairs last year. Neither city officials nor the new manager could say why, and the owner did not return calls seeking comment.