Residents are now out of an 80 unit condominium complex at 1121 Albion Street in Denver after the building was ordered vacated by the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment.
“I was all freaked out at first because you know we didn’t really know what was going on,” said resident and condominium owner Phil Boden.
“I’ve been staying in two different places,” said Boden, who has found housing at a couple different Comfort Inns.
Rob Lobato has also been staying at a hotel. He was back to pick up a few things in the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours that residents were allowed back in.
“That was the consensus we were going to be able to stay then this notice on the door was Monday,” he said.
The building has been without running water for most of the past two weeks since Denver’s record setting cold snap drove temperatures to -19 at Denver International Airport in mid-January.
“It was an emotional, physical, mental, just beatdown,” said Leslie Luke of her rush to find a new apartment after talking to her landlord, who will let her out of her lease.