The Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority filed suit Thursday against the owner and manager of Cascade Village Apartments, accusing The Community Builders of mismanagement while trying to prevent them from walking away from the properties.
On Friday, Summit County Common Pleas Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands appointed a receiver for the 242-unit mixed-income housing community, saying in her order that doing so would help protect Cascade Village residents. The case was later moved to federal court in the Northern District of Ohio.
Stuck in the middle are people like Dawaun Addie, who said tenants have long been dealing with water damage, vermin and other maintenance and safety issues that have gone unaddressed by TCB.
Addie, a longtime resident who moved out last year but still comes to Cascade Village daily as a caretaker for his mother, said Friday he was worried about what the legal dispute would mean for people who call the apartments home…