INDIANAPOLIS — In what residents are calling a complete collapse of security and management, the Georgetown Apartments on Bunker Hill Drive have reportedly reached a breaking point. Residents say that the complex has been overtaken by squatters, leaving legal tenants to defend their homes against break-ins, assaults, and illegal “mobile leases.”
The crisis, which residents say has been building for seven months, has transformed the subsidized housing complex into a site of lawlessness. Legal tenants describe a coordinated effort by groups of young men who monitor the property, change locks on vacant units, and even force their way into occupied homes.
A System of “Shadow Leases”According to one resident, the squatters have established a sophisticated system to bypass legal scrutiny…