A Baltimore woman says the city’s housing authority should have done more to help her, after a fire left her home damaged.

The fire happened last week in a vacant unit in the McCullough Homes in West Baltimore. It spread to a home occupied by Henrietta Smith and her son, who is mentally disabled. Now the home is severely damaged -- ripped out ceilings reveal soaked, rotting insulation. And there's water damage on just about every wall.

After the fire the Red Cross took care of the family for two days. Since then they say they've had to stay back in the damaged home. Henrietta’s other son – who says he lives in a small efficiency -- says the housing authority should have found another place for his mother and his brother to stay. “The city needs to defend themselves, of why they let people live the way they live in these communities," said Randolph Scott. A representative for the Uhuru Movement, which supports poor urban families, says it's a case of the housing authority neglecting the Scotts. “It's just a black eye for the city but I don't think anybody in this neighborhood is surprised that there's a family living in this house in this condition,” said Uhuru spokesman Nnamdi Lumumba.

A spokeswoman for the city’s housing authority told ABC-2 News that Henrietta Scott told the authority's representatives that she would be staying with another family member, not in the damaged home.

The authority confirms that Scott has signed a lease and will move into a different apartment this Friday.