Inside Madeline Fall’s Bloomfield apartment lie clues to the factors that turned the 30-year-old therapist into a tenant organizer.
A small copy of the fifth-edition Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders sits on her office desk. A binder labeled “cookbook” is decorated with an image of former One Direction band member Niall Horan.
But moisture absorbers sit in otherwise empty kitchen cabinets and discoloration covers parts of the ceiling above. In the office, court documents and tenant union flyers edge out the colored markers on a corner desk that was originally used as an arts-and-crafts station.
In March, Fall and about two dozen other residents started organizing to sound the alarm on the conditions at buildings run by NRM Properties, LLC, a South Side Flats-based property management company. The residents say conditions include weekslong water leaks, no air or heat during the hottest or coldest months and a lack of communication from management…