The Atlantic City Housing Authority has known for more than a month it would temporarily relocate 19 families from Stanley Holmes Village this week to fix sewer pipes, an official said Monday night, but didn t tell residents until Thursday.
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U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd, on Friday stepped up his pressure on a federal officials to take action to help Stanley Holmes Village s low-income tenants in Atlantic City.
Residents of the Atlantic City Housing Authority s 420-unit public housing complex were heating their homes with ovens and stoves earlier this month during a "Code Blue" freeze, Van Drew said in his letter to Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge.
Atlantic City was under Code Blue warnings for freezing temperatures in recent days, and the residents of the 420-unit public housing complex Stanley Holmes Village were again without heat or hot water.
The Atlantic City Housing Authority will be back in court Tuesday, arguing over potential rent abatements for tenants suing over conditions at Stanley Holmes Village, and over a Dec. 14 request by tenants that the judge take stronger action to enforce his own orders.