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Springfield city building inspectors say they are monitoring situation at Jenny Lind Hall affordable housing apartments where both elevators that serve the six-story building are inoperable, leaving disabled residents on higher floors with no access to the ground level other than stairs.
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Vacant houses are a serious issue in Springfield, serious enough that city leaders will travel all the way to Texas for a conference on formulating a plan to fight the problem.
Springfield's Building Development Services processed 17,803 nuisance-related code enforcement cases between January 2015 and December 2021.
Renters say their problems include exposed wires, holes in the floor and a broken sewer pipe.
If you are driving around Springfield this fall and notice some new construction, there's a good chance it's apartments.