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Tenants in Prodigy receivership urge city to meet after reports of sewage in apartments
Summary
Tenants from properties now managed by Prodigy, formerly Vision and Beyond, asked Cincinnati City Council during public comment to schedule a meeting with the company and the city about unsafe living conditions and a plan that includes tenant input. The mayor offered to meet and staff were asked to connect with the tenant union.
Tenants of properties in the receivership of Prodigy told Cincinnati City Council on May 21 that they are living in poor and unsafe conditions and asked the city to schedule a meeting with the company and tenant representatives.
Marcy Frazier, introducing herself as a tenant and representative of a tenant union formed across multiple buildings in the receivership, said, “Our goal is seriously discussing with prodigy and the city about our living conditions and the future of our homes.” She told the council she visited Kirby Avenue earlier that week and “saw the sewer coming into the tenants' apartments.”
Why it matters: Tenants said the receivership followed the collapse of Vision and Beyond and that residents — including elders, disabled tenants,…
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