Residents at Nashville apartments say they’ve gone months without hot water

When 70-year-old Brenda Floyd told us she feels forgotten, we listened — especially after she explained she’s been living for months without hot water in her South Nashville apartment. The problem, she says, has made it nearly impossible to take a proper shower or bath.

“They act like it’s nothing,” Floyd said. “But it’s something to us. To be without hot water.”

Floyd, a stroke survivor who walks with a cane, lives on the second floor of Hickory Hollow Towers, a HUD-subsidized complex she says is owned and operated by Evergreen Real Estate Services. She’s not the only one struggling. Her neighbors, Theresa Ellis and Donnell Rhone, say they’ve also been dealing with the same issue for four months…

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