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More than 80 families facing eviction from a Southeast Austin apartment complex by the end of the month will not be forced out, after a vote by Travis County leaders Tuesday.
Since July 2, the families living at the Rosemont at Oak Valley apartments had been staring at a July 31 deadline to leave. Thirty days is not enough time, became a common refrain among dozens of residents who begged members of the Travis County Commissioners Court in their Tuesday meeting for more time and funding. I am scared of returning home on 31st and my keys won t fit in my door, resident Erica Cervantes said. I don’t have the means to move. This is unjust. I m a single mother, and I can t pay the expense to move to a new apartment so quickly.
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Paul Rodriguez and dozens of his neighbors gathered Tuesday morning outside the front office of the Rosemont at Oak Valley apartments in Southeast Austin after 85 families received notice Friday that they were being evicted and must move out by July 31.
In a letter to residents, the complex told residents their leases were being terminated because of natural disaster and catastrophe caused by the February freeze that led to widespread power and water outages, and broken pipes.
“While Rosemont at Oak Valley has taken steps in order to mitigate the effects of any damage, we have found that the extent of damage experienced in your unit will unfortunately require that we terminate your lease and you to vacate the unit so that we may make the necessary repairs,” the letter states.
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TEXAS The number of code cases since the storm is now nearing 30,000, and that’s just a few cities in Texas reporting.
What You Need To Know
Apartment damage cases have piled up while property owners make little progress
Tenants and housing advocates say the city isn’t doing enough to enforce
Austin Code Compliance said landlord-friendly laws get in the way
Aftermath from the February freeze is also revealing inequities and shortcomings in the systems designed to help renters with unsafe living conditions.
Barbara Salazar lost her entire apartment to storm damage.
“All the doors, the laundry door fall down,” Salazar said. “It was coming, water from the top to the bottom and it got all flooded.”