NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Tenants at Shorter College Gardens continue living in unsafe and deteriorating conditions as federal and local officials work to relocate dozens of residents following the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s decision to terminate its contract with the property.
The agency stopped sending subsidy payments to the complex’s owner on November 1, citing “major threats to health and safety” and a failure to maintain the property in a “decent, safe, and sanitary condition.”
“It’s pretty much an emergency situation for the renters,” said Kevin Holloway, a North Little Rock organizer with Arkansas Community Organizations and Arkansas Renters United. “It has accumulated from over years of a lack of enforcement of HUD rules.”
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Holloway said the crisis at Shorter College Gardens is an example of the state’s long-standing failure to protect tenants…