Artemio Barrera and his neighbors said they’ve been living without hot water for two weeks. The tenants, who live on North Lawn Avenue in Kansas City’s North Indian Mound neighborhood, have been trying and failing to get the landlord to fix it.
They gathered Wednesday in front of their apartment complex to demand change from their landlord.
The broken hot water is just the latest in a host of problems that Barrera said he and his neighbors have had to fix themselves. The tenants, many of whom are refugees and immigrants on fixed incomes, said they’re also dealing with broken windows and appliances, bugs and other pests, and safety issues. On top of that, the tenants are facing massive rent increases…