Shreveport has shut off the water at another delinquent apartment complex. The mayor says its tenants are likely going to have to move out.
The city turned off the water at the Sanctuary apartments in southwest Shreveport around 3 p.m. Thursday after the property owner failed to meet the deadline for payment of its overdue bill. Units in the complex now are considered unfit for occupancy under updated city ordinance.
The city began informing tenants at the Sanctuary Tuesday that their water — through no fault of their own — was scheduled to be disconnected. Those tenants pay their utility fees other than electricity through their rent, but the complex owes the water department more than $145,000…