Posted on 09/21/2019 1:49:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Kansas City officials, using a new housing inspection law, have moved residents out of a troubled Northland apartment building where they found roaches, severe plumbing problems and other dangerous health violations, the Health Department announced in a news conference Wednesday.
In the building, city officials and elected leaders said they saw caved-in ceilings, mold and damp carpets. During their visit Friday, they walked through human excrement in an apartment where sewage had backed up into the toilet, sinks and bathtub.
“Disgusting is the best way I can tell you what I saw,” Councilman Dan Fowler, who represents the area, said of the apartment that had been vacant since February. “The door was opened to the apartment, and this is no exaggeration, cockroaches rained down from the door sill.”
The building in question is part of Englewood Apartments, a complex near Interstate 29 and Waukomis Drive owned by Cleveland-based Millennia Housing Management. It has been on the city’s radar for more than a year since officials visited the site to follow up on resident complaints. Millennia said the complex has 14 buildings, but city and U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development officials say there are 12. It’s unclear why there’s a discrepancy.
The conditions officials found last year are similar to what they encountered on their return.
In a statement, Millennia spokeswoman Valerie Jerome said the company was working on a $10 million rehabilitation of the complex and cooperating with federal and local governments, including Kansas City’s Healthy Homes rental inspection program.
“As a result of a recent Healthy Homes inspection, seven households were displaced,” Jerome said. “We have since rehoused those families, and we are diligently addressing the issues cited.”
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Maybe the previous tenants are from shit hole countries?
...Fowler said every Kansas Citian is entitled to affordable housing...
“Millennia said the complex has 14 buildings, but city and U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development officials say there are 12. It’s unclear why there’s a discrepancy.”
First they got rid of cursive writing in the public schools and then came the elimination elementary math .....
The politician stated “we’re going to clean up the slums”.
And a resident replied “ who want to live in a clean slum”?
Or another observation, If there were no slums, where would they put the truck routes?
HUD might be counting in Base 12
I love to watch her interview. She is hilarious! I bet she would be a hoot at a party.
I live in Florida and I have to say that a city where a Project can be shut down for a few roaches is a very fortunate city. In Florida such rules would end public housing altogether.
Pass Rent Control.
Bring on roaches & rats.
Condemn the apartment building.
Elite slumlords buy it up for pennies on the dollar.
Cancel Rent Control.
Buy low, sell high.
Repeat.
Bet it wasn’t like that when they first cut the ribbon for these skells. They live like animals and destroy that which is not theirs and demand it be fixed
“The horror,the horror!!”
Are these guberment owned building?
Well, I heard one government office holder claim we have 57 states. What’s out of the norm here?
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