City Of Atlanta, Management Company Work To Relocate 180 Residents Left Stranded In Dilapidated, Foreclosed Apartment Complex

In Atlanta, Georgia, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:

• Josephine Roberts has to move – right away – out of the rundown southwest Atlanta apartment that has been her home for 25 years. “It’s probably for the best,” Roberts, 65, told the AJC on Thursday after meeting with an apartment management company that is trying to relocate the 180 people stranded in the Hidden Pines apartments after the bank foreclosed on the property. “The conditions [at Hidden Pines] are not [safe] living standards. I don’t think we, as a people, should live in this type of environment… It was unbelievable.”

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• “This property is not safe,” said Mitzi Bickers with the Mayor’s Office for human services. Bickers said city workers discovered the Hidden Pines residents when crews were dispatched to investigate reports that broken pipes were spewing untreated sewage. She said several senior citizens and pregnant women were moved Friday while the others will leave over the next few weeks.

For more, see Atlanta trying to relocate residents in foreclosed apartments.