Once a DC ‘gem,’ residents show Fort Chaplin Park Apartments in disrepair

Standing in her damp, dark apartment in April, Jazmyne Battle told how the laundry room near her basement unit in the Fort Chaplin Park Apartments flooded her home two months prior.

“The water damaged my kids’ furniture. The mold got into the clothes. We couldn’t take nothing,” said Battle, who moved into the sprawling complex off Benning Road in Ward 7 several years ago.

“They kept saying they were going to put tickets in, have somebody come out and fix it,” she said of the property management company’s response to the damage…

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