PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (WTOC) – Seven residents were forced out of their homes after Port Wentworth code enforcement deemed their building unlivable due to no working fire alarm system and questionably structural walls and roofs.
The city gave tenants from May 6 until June 1 at noon to find somewhere else to stay, a timeline that residents called “unreasonable.”
“My problem is you’re throwing me out on the streets with only three weeks and I have no way or no time to do anything. That’s not enough time for hardly anybody to move, find a place, pay deposit and get started all over again,” said Michael Heyward, a Port Wentworth resident…