Posts Tagged ‘Nevin Plaza’
Eviction case highlights accessibility, repair issues at Nevin Plaza
A former tenant of Nevin Plaza contends that the public housing of the city of Richmond violated several of his rights as a tenant with disabilities, in an open case with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Read MoreRodents, Roaches and Broken Elevators: Why it took nearly a decade for Richmond to fix public housing
By Betty Marquez Rosales and Ravleen Kaur The elevators inside a Richmond public housing building had been broken for about a week before city officials moved to have them fixed — an unusually rapid response for a building plagued by maintenance issues for years, where residents regularly endure long waits to have them repaired. This…
Read MoreResidents of Richmond public housing live in fear, demand action to address poor conditions
Her family dialed 911. But when paramedics reached the seven-story affordable housing development, they found its elevators malfunctioning yet again. In fact, the elevators at this federally funded housing development had not been working for one week, residents say, and they often break down. The building houses some of the city’s most vulnerable residents — low-income seniors and people with disabilities.
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