In the fifteen months since the collapse of a landing on the back stairs, numerous long term residents have moved out as conditions here decline and I'm personally aware of four more apartments occupied by long term tenants who are actively looking for a place to move to. The bottom line is that those who have the resources to do so are getting out and this is a property rapidly losing its base of long term residents.
This will be the last entry for this blog. As I've tried to make clear all along, I never wanted to do this in the first place. (If you're just getting here, the quickest way to catch up is by reading the timeline in the entry HERE and the FAQs about this website HERE.) I think the thing I hate the most about living here is that Urban Housing Solutions' most usual response to problems on this property historically has been to scapegoat as unreliable or worse anyone who asks for problems to be addressed. That's not a good thing to say about anyone but is especially contemptible for a not-for-profit whose public mission is to serve those least able to help themselves, as people are forced into a position in which they must put up with conditions or be labeled a trouble maker. There will be much more to say in another forum after I'm safely moved myself, but to continue posting here is to participate in the charade of pretending UHS is operating in good faith when the preponderance of evidence makes it clear they are not.
(Debris remaining from when the Building B balconies were torn down earlier this year. Photo shot in October, but the debris is still there today.)
Retaliation: A landlord must not terminate, refuse to renew a lease, or fine a tenant for complaining to the landlord regarding the deposit, complaining to a government agency, or exercising a legal right. (Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-51 and § 66-11-105)
