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The payments, of $10,067 for each of the 149 households affected, will be available on April 1, according to the city attorney's office.

The city has spent more than $1.6 million to help the more than 1,300 residents displaced when the property was shut down last year.

After traffickers forced Haitian asylum seekers to pay rent to stay in abandoned apartments, community leaders call on the city to step up response.

A judge fined owners of Colonial Village Apartments on East Side $50,000 for not fixing code violations.

According to City Attorney Zach Klein, the owners of the property failed to fix numerous code violations.

Court documents show that the owners have failed to address electrical, trash, pest infestation issues and other health and safety protocols in the past at the 500 -unit complex.