JACKSON, Miss.—For nearly six years, James Hannah lived at the Chapel Ridge Apartments on Raymond Road. He is one of the thousands of renters who call Jackson home.
He enjoyed the experience overall and said things were going well until this summer, when a lapse in management and ownership at the complex left residents without garbage collection for weeks and under the threat of JXN Water shutting off their water access.
“We take care of where we live,” Hannah told the Mississippi Free Press in June. “We were wondering why they weren’t picking up the trash. … We didn’t know they weren’t paying the bill.”
When officials with the City of Jackson announced on June 8 that they were pursuing legal action against the out-of-state owner and working to find a new management company to oversee day-to-day operations at the complex, Hannah was hopeful that tenants there would see a resolution…