Rubio and Scott: New ownership needed for two HUD-supported complexes
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Inspectors descend on Eastside complexes where life-threatening conditions have been reported
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Sen. Marco Rubio wants HUD action on housing issues, including one Ocala apartment complex Austin L. Miller, Ocala Star-Banner © Austin L. Miller/Ocala Star-Banner Efforts to reach management at Ocala Place Apartments were unsuccessful.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has written a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary asking her agency to inspect Florida residential properties that members of Rubio s staff have described as unfit for families.
In a news release issued Friday, Rubio said 29 Florida properties in the Project-Based Section 8 Rental Assistance program have failing inspection scores and have not been re-inspected in a timely manner.
U.S. Rep. Al Lawson became the second member of Congress in a week to call out rodent-plagued, federally subsidized apartments in Jacksonville when he said Thursday residents of Hilltop Village Apartments should be relocated until exterminators can clear out infestations.
“It is inacceptable that young mothers who live in the units and are working to raise healthy children are forced to put their food in airtight containers so disease-carrying rodents cannot disrupt their child’s development,” Lawson, D-Tallahassee, said in a statement.
Lawson s criticism comes on the heels of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio taking aim over the past week at conditions at Hilltop Village and two other Jacksonville apartment complexes, Eastside Terrace and Eastside Gardens, after his congressional staff toured them and talked with residents.