Housing advocates and tenants of the Northern Village Apartments packed the St. Louis County Council meeting Tuesday evening seeking $450,000 in emergency housing funds.
The extended public comment follows years of what they say are uninhabitable conditions – including lack of heat, mold, and collapsing ceilings – at the north county apartment complex owned by an out-of-state company. The complex has about 150 families.
“Last year, the heat went out every weekend in the winter,” 73-year-old tenant Troy Kirby told St. Louis Public Radio. “I never knew what it was like to have heat Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.”…