His parents say his asthma has grown worse with the spread of dark mold across the bathroom ceiling caused by a leaky pipe in the family's three-bedroom apartment at the Castle Hill Houses. Human waste drips from the broken pipe above the toilet. The family keeps a neon-green bucket on the tank to catch the ooze. "They (NYCHA) are supposed to come back and fix it," said James, who can't play basketball, his favorite sport, because of his asthma. "All they do is come and paint over it. Next month, it's all back."