Families forced out of filthy apartments

"I just know I need some where to go, I don't want to go to no shelter, because I wasn't in no shelter before you shut them down. So find somewhere for me to go," said Latrice Long-Payton an apartment resident.

Pretty demanding when getting something for nothing!

Who made these apartments so filthy? Was it the taxpayers or the residents?

All I know is just because they live in "low income" housing doesnt man they have to tear it up and never clean up!! I don't understand alot of the people complain about being put out but if they where taking care of themselves and their place they wouldn't have to worry about all this happening to them

Same story, different year, last year it was the Phoenix Apartments next year it will be a different complex and in ten years it will be the ones being built this year. There has to be a better way to take care of the animals of the city.

Would it not have been cheaper for the tax payer in the long run to have just cleaned the building up?

Jaime wrote:

All I know is just because they live in "low income" housing doesnt man they have to tear it up and never clean up!! I don't understand alot of the people complain about being put out but if they where taking care of themselves and their place they wouldn't have to worry about all this happening to them

"asbestos " has nothing to do with cleaniness.This is why the health department shut the apartments down.The owners refused to get rid of the asbestos .They also allowed the tenants to pay rent when they already knew the health department was going to shut them down.

Im glad they were shutdown.They just need to tear down the rest of the apartments in that area.They are breeding grounds for crime.

Anti PC wrote:

"I just know I need some where to go, I don't want to go to no shelter, because I wasn't in no shelter before you shut them down. So find somewhere for me to go," said Latrice Long-Payton an apartment resident.
Pretty demanding when getting something for nothing!
Who made these apartments so filthy? Was it the taxpayers or the residents?

These people pay rent.It just at a lower price.The apartments rent between 250-350 a month.There was an older gentleman who was interviewed on tv and he said he paid "350" a month.he was retired and on a fixed income and that is why he lived there.

The government needs to tear down all of the "low income" aparments in that area and maybe the crime will go down,If they are going to use my tax dollars they should at least make sure the place is up to standard.

The apartment complex was not maintained as it should have been, but there should be a requirement for tenants to take instruction on the proper way to care for their apartments.

Quigley56 wrote:

Would it not have been cheaper for the tax payer in the long run to have just cleaned the building up?

You gotta be kidding. It would have to be a weekly cleaning. The leeches of society do not care about taking care of handouts. Taxpayers should not have to provide ANYTHING to healthy people. The need education. go to work and quit spawning the next generation of takers.

The article said the movers (paid for by taxpayers) had to cover their clothes and wear masks (cause of the stench)....HE** NO.....Why are they not moving out their own filth. Where is this filth being moved to?

The tennants destroyed their own homes. Are there any children living there? If there are kids or handicap there....why didn't CPS or other service providers visit and get the infirm out of those buildings long ago? The healthy deserve what they created.

I don't think it is there responcibilty to find anyone a place to live,you were looking for a place when you found that one so you should look for a place yourself.

Corbin Leape wrote:

move these animals to the zoo where they belong.

Animals....is this funny to you. The owner of the property is the animal.

hummmm wrote:

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Animals....is this funny to you. The owner of the property is the animal.

No....NOT funny. The owner of the property did not destroy it. The dregs did.

23 empty buildings with out of state owners.This complex will become the biggest crack/meth head gathering this city has ever seen.

Anti PC wrote:

"I just know I need some where to go, I don't want to go to no shelter, because I wasn't in no shelter before you shut them down. So find somewhere for me to go," said Latrice Long-Payton an apartment resident.
Pretty demanding when getting something for nothing!
Who made these apartments so filthy? Was it the taxpayers or the residents?

No it was the slum lord that owns the property.

Quigley56 wrote:

Would it not have been cheaper for the tax payer in the long run to have just cleaned the building up?

Why clean the places up. If these people are too lazy to clean up their residences, let them live in the squalor they created. Cheaper, yes you are probably right but would that just encourage further laziness, assuming it could get any worse? There is no excuse for that sort of sloppy behavior. Soap, water and cleaning supplies combined with a little incentive isn't that expensive.
Did you notice the woman complaining was wearing nice clothing? Back in our time, Quigley these people would have been allowed to live in their messes no matter how bad it became and would have been outcasts, looked down upon, scorned. Now everybody feels sorry for them.
Maybe I'm a harda** but how about No Work No Eat...We shall help you only when and if you help yourselves. Guys like you and I who have worked for decades have more right to government assistance than persons who sit on their lazy duffs with their entitlement mentality, people who would not work if driven to the workplace in a limo. Too many kids to feed, try crossing your legs.

For those who are putting all the blame on the tenants, this is why the apartments were closed:

The Health Department sought to close the complex after it issued about 300 code violations since October,, including citations for water damage, raw sewage, insects, rodents, collapsed ceilings and trash.

Sounds like the problem was more so because of the actual property and not the people inhabiting them. The property owners should have taken care of the asbestos and the code violations.

Also, you all should feel ashamed for calling these people the names you have called them. Sure, some of them may have contributed to the problem, but I'm sure that there are a lot that had no real choice in the matter. For you to call them animals is sick.

Amerie wrote:

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The government needs to tear down all of the "low income" aparments in that area and maybe the crime will go down,If they are going to use my tax dollars they should at least make sure the place is up to standard.

Where will they move? What will be the next apartment complex to be trashed? HOLD THE TENNANTS ACCOUNTABLE.

Where would these people live without the government handouts?

Suckers wrote:

Where is this filth being moved to?

To an apartment complex near you!

KELVIN D wrote:

<quoted text>No it was the slum lord that owns the property.

I doubt the slumlords created the filth. The tennants did and the legal system wouldn't let the owners evict the pigs from the pen.

Its kind a funny if you ask me. These people didnt care about the filth until they had to move. The owner is guilty of not removing the asbestos. I will give you that. But the tenents are the reason this place is a pig pen. Why should they care, this place is full of generations of family abusing the welfare system. I am sure Amerie has helped many of them defraud the system.