Housing advocates and tenants of Northern Village Apartments packed the St. Louis County Council meeting Tuesday evening seeking $450,000 in emergency housing funds as residents face the possibility of losing their homes.
The testimony follows years of what tenants describe as uninhabitable conditions — including a lack of heat, mold and collapsing ceilings — at the North County complex, which houses about 150 families.
“Last year, the heat went out every weekend in the winter,” 73-year-old tenant Troy Kirby told St. Louis Public Radio. “I never knew what it was like to have heat Friday, Saturday and Sunday.”…