Could someone please take this problem at Blue Diamond Apartments a little more seriously? Maybe someone at Housing and HUD?
I have emails involving Councilwoman Vicki Aubrey Welch from early June informing her of the problem/requesting assistance. Nothing has changed. Have the same from officials at HUD and Metro Housing. No improvements at all.
Here’s a taste:
Even tons of communication involving Greg Fischer:
I’ll start publishing all the emails (beyond those available on that website, which we redacted out of courtesy) and communications if no one wants to take the issue seriously.
Seems people want to sit on their hands or ignore problems with poorer residents throughout Louisville. Slumlords aren’t held accountable.
Surely, Welch and her staff will be on top of this issue ASAP. In a city where hundreds of UofL students can be temporarily relocated over much more simple mold concerns, surely to goodness someone with power or responsibility can help these folks out.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Steve // Oct 16, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Wow, that is horrible.
2 Nova China // Oct 16, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Wow, I wonder what the difference is between a bunch of poor people living in moldy substandard section 8 housing in the West End and beautiful young a-go-go teen and twenty-somethings living in moldy but modern with-it housing on the campus of Louisville’s fabulous showcase college. Could it be the section 8 crowd doesn’t know how to twitter? Or maybe a dingo ate their I-phone. I couldn’t possibly be that politicians purposely ignore problems unless somewhere, someday, somehow there’s a big payoff in the sky. Besides, since we’ve all been indoctrinated to believe that section 8 housing = welfare cheating free riding dirty dog lazy bums, it really serves them right anyway, doesn’t it?
3 JTT // Oct 16, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Actually the moldy UL dorm was Miller Hall, one of the oldest, and dinkiest, dorms on campus, I believe.
4 Steve // Oct 16, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Blue Diamond Apartments are in South Louisville and what is Public Health saying about the conditions?
5 G'town Reader // Oct 17, 2012 at 12:18 am
Guess this complex will soon be getting yet another name change.
6 Gil // Oct 17, 2012 at 8:00 am
You have metro employees working in buildings with this type of problem. Why should the council care about a private complex?
That was rhetorical.
I hope they do care, but if the city doesn’t care about their own properties why would they care about the mold in a privately owned complex?
7 Lisa Graas // Oct 18, 2012 at 7:53 am
I love how you think that if they don’t put you first in line on the priority list because you are a blogger, it somehow means they don’t care about poor people. The email you are showing indicates that an inspector was sent. In my community, there was a public school that had this problem for years, including sickened children. Doctors were complaining about it…again, for years. What had to happen was that a new school had to be built and that cost a lot of money. Years went by before the new school was finally built. It is not because of people not caring that years went by before a new school was built. It was because the huge expense of building a new school takes time to be allocated. If the problems here are as bad as you say they are, it seems likely that it is not something that can be “fixed.” Rather, they’ll have to condemn the building (as our local school was, finally). Since this is private housing, if the building is condemned, likely there will not be a new building constructed to replace it. As a poor person myself, I would advise the people in the building to move to other housing because, likely, the more you complain, the quicker you’ll be evicted due to the building being condemned (if it is as bad as you say it is.)
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