By Jamil Donith Texas
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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.”