“My main concern is about the evictions,” an activist said, “but the bigger picture for me is that the process is not running as smoothly as I think is being conveyed to the public.”
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HUD boss says agency has “some issues” with Forest Cove owner
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge would not say on Friday whether the federal housing agency would investigate Forest Cove owner Millennia Housing Management after a fire at a Millennia complex in Little Rock, Ark., killed three people early this month.
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Forest Cove owner: Deaths at other properties don’t indicate trend of negligence
Millennia spokesperson Valerie Jerome said Millennia Resistance Campaign activists are peddling a “false narrative.”
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As Forest Cove resident relocation wraps, activists urge HUD to investigate owner
The Millennia Resistance Campaign will keep pushing the federal government to investigate allegations that Millennia Housing Management has mismanaged the condemned complex.
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Relocation team has found apartments for remaining Forest Cove residents
Over six months into the city’s emergency resident relocation effort, 43 families still remain at Forest Cove, the Southside’s condemned Section 8 apartment complex owned by Millennia Housing Management.
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About half of Forest Cove tenants have been relocated, but livable housing for the rest remains uncertain
Two months after the original relocation deadline set by Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, there are still 51 families living at Forest Cove, the condemned Southside apartment complex owned by Millennia Housing Management—and the housing situation for other Section 8 renters who have left remains unclear.
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Housing advocates demand federal investigation of Forest Cove owner
National and local tenant advocates are demanding that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investigate Millennia Housing Management, which owns Atlanta’s most notorious apartment complex, Forest Cove, and other poorly maintained Section 8 properties across the country.
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Relocated Forest Cove tenants report familiar problems at new apartments
After years of braving roaches and rodents, mold and litter, and all-too-frequent shootings, some Forest Cove tenants who’ve finally moved out through a city-led relocation initiative are reporting that their new apartments are plagued by their own health hazards.
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Shooting at Forest Cove underscores need to fast-track resident relocation
Yet another violent episode at the Southside’s Forest Cove Apartments has amplified the need to swiftly rehouse the condemned complex’s tenants—and spotlighted the city’s trouble finding them suitable homes.
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As school year approaches, only a fraction of Forest Cove families have been rehoused
The team tasked with rehousing the 202 families living at the Southside’s condemned Forest Cove apartments is well behind the target goal of relocating everyone before the Atlanta Public Schools semester begins on Aug. 1.