Angela Blackmon refuses to turn on her air conditioner, worried that it could start “another fire in the fuse box.” Her neighbor’s A/C doesn’t work at all, despite repeated requests for repairs. The temperature in their apartments crept up toward 90 degrees on Sunday afternoon — and Atlanta’s heat wave will only worsen this week.
The climate-control problems represent just a fraction of the widespread dangerous conditions hundreds of residents face at the Westside’s Woodland Heights apartment complex, a Section 8 community located just inside the I-285 Perimeter. Other tenants there live with mold and mildew, rats and roaches, crumbling drywall, leaky pipes, and exposed wires.
But an activist campaign is ramping up to pressure the property owner — a California-based LLC called Rolling Bends | Preservation Limited Partners — to make long-overdue repairs. The company, whose website is offline, could not be reached for comment…