City councilors heard it from anguished citizens and members of United Interfaith Action advocating to ease the city’s homelessness problem and revitalize Watuppa Heights during the Nov. 19 City Council meeting: what’s taking so long?

The Fall River Housing Authority, current owners of the barren 10-acre field at the corner of Rodman and Warren streets, say there’s not much to report about the once-developed site in Fall River’s Niagara neighborhood, once a public housing project demolished in 2013. 

Watuppa Heights' woes lead back to 2001. “This goes back over 20 years. … Unfortunately for the council and our fellow citizens, there’s not much else we can say. We're currently in litigation,” said Fall River Housing Authority Executive Director Kevin Sbardella. The lawsuit, according to FRHA's attorney Michael Sousa, is “still in the discovery phase,” he said.

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