At a dramatic 2023 news conference in Atlanta City Hall, former Forest Cove resident Felicia Morris, known as “Ms. Peaches,” stood alongside Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, sharing her experiences at the dilapidated apartment complex in southeast Atlanta where she lived for decades.
Through tears she described years of living with rats, mildew, tainted tap water and crumbling walls. Over time, she said, residents’ cries for help went unanswered.
Despite Dickens’ promise that day to get tough on Forest Cove owner Millennia by enlisting Crump to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of residents, no complaint was ever filed. And in the past year, Crump, a nationally recognized lawyer, has not responded to multiple requests for comment from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the status of the case…