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Jenn Brown (left) helps Kristen Carpenter move out of her Round Rock apartment earlier this month. Carpenter s landlord terminated her lease because of property damage from the February winter storm.
The walls of Ann Marie Romero’s one-bedroom apartment in Northeast Austin are speckled with mold. She hasn’t lived there since mid-February, when pipes burst because of freezing temperatures, soaking much of her furniture and clothes.
Romero has been sleeping on friends’ sofas; this week she’ll tally her fifth couch in two months.
“I’m still very much living in survival mode,” she said Saturday, as a group of her fellow tenants gathered in protest outside their apartment complex, Mueller Flats. Residents say property managers have failed to make repairs or provide accommodations for nearly 200 renters living with mold on their walls and holes in their ceilings.
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Almost two months after the historic winter storms, tenants rallied and demanded habitable apartment units
Mold, construction and no running water is what some tenants at 9500 and Mueller Flats apartment complexes are dealing with. Author: Daranesha Herron (KVUE) Updated: 6:50 PM CDT April 10, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas Nearly two months after devastating winter storms hit Texas, some tenants are still dealing with uninhabitable apartments.
on Saturday, dozens of upset renters came together to demand action from their apartment managers. It was the newly formed Mueller Flats Tenants Association and 9500 Tenants Association. Both groups were built out of despair for a habitable home.
The two groups grabbed their signs and marched in solidarity to both management companies and dropped off a list of demands for compensation, accommodations, lease termination without penalties and open communication.
Tenants in Northeast Austin describe unlivable conditions two months after Texas freeze Sarah Asch, Austin American-Statesman
Members of the Mueller Flats Tenants Association and other tenants groups from nearby apartment complexes rallied Saturday morning to demand their management companies deal with damages from the winter storms that have gone unaddressed since February.
David Rojas, who described himself as the unofficial head of the Mueller Flats group, said his apartment flooded during the winter freeze. Rojas had standing water in his unit that went unaddressed for so long that mold is growing in his closet.
“We started to talk to each other and understand that this was a complexwide problem,” Rojas said. “Management expects full rent with no concessions, with no other place to live. It’s just pay us and that’s it.”
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