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Residents, advocates tell council senior housing complexes face safety, maintenance failures
Summary
Several residents and community leaders told the council during public comment that security systems, building maintenance and trash collection have deteriorated at senior and affordable housing complexes; speakers pressed the city and property managers for enforcement and remediation.
Multiple residents and community advocates used public comment to urge the Durham City Council to address ongoing safety and maintenance problems at several senior and affordable housing complexes.
Speakers described broken doors, insufficient cleaning and trash collection, repeated unauthorized occupants and encampments in building hallways and storage areas, rodent infestations and long-running repair backlogs. Several said they had notified property management repeatedly without satisfactory remediation.
The nut graf: residents and an association president asked the council to investigate property management practices and to hold owners accountable…
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