Nearly 70 current and former tenants of the Oakland Station apartments – all seniors or people with disabilities, or both – filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the building’s owners and managers of negligence, elder abuse, harassment and other civil violations.
The 181-page lawsuit alleges residents were lured in with the promise of luxury senior living but instead endured years of unsafe conditions, repeated elevator outages, security failures and severe cockroach infestations at the affordable housing complex.
“Overrun with trash, debris, feces, unhoused trespassers, drug use, drug paraphernalia, rodents, and cockroaches, the Complex trapped senior tenants in the most vulnerable and unsafe housing conditions and had virtually no usable amenities,” the lawsuit alleges…