OHA stopped evictions to fight a lawsuit. It’s making Omaha’s public housing unsafe, staff says

In a flurry of Friday morning emails, property managers Kisha Mallory and Kahla Stanley pleaded with their boss to evict two tenants who had caused “ongoing disturbances” at Omaha’s Park Towers.

The day before, a tenant allegedly threatened an employee who had confronted her about a bag of trash left in the elevator. She then allegedly threw a pot of grease at a visitor before police arrived. She hadn’t paid rent in more than nine months, the managers reported.

Another resident became hostile toward Mallory and a fire safety contractor as they inspected a disabled alarm in her apartment. The tenant “became so aggressive that (the contractor) believed she might physically strike me,” Mallory said in the Dec. 5 email. As Mallory departed the building, the tenant allegedly told her to “watch her back.”…

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