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Rats have made living conditions so unacceptable and despicable at Hilltop Village Apartments the federal government should immediately shut down the complex, Jacksonville City Council member Ju Coby Pittman wrote in a letter to the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD has not gone that far in its own response to the rodent infestation that has lead to rats running through apartments. The federal agency has met with the company managing the apartment complex about the company s commitment to spend about $256,000 for extermination and pest control, according to HUD. Pittman said in her letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge that 13 of 14 buildings at Hilltop Village are infested. ....
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio called on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to correct problems at two Jacksonville apartment complexes where he said mold, pests and chronic disrepair create unacceptable living conditions for residents. Rubio said his staff went to Eastside Terrace Apartments on April 21 and Eastside Gardens Apartments on April 22. During these visits, my staff met with tenants of both properties, where they found systemic evidence of black mold, pest infestations, crumbling staircases, and a general state of chronic disrepair, Rubio wrote in his letter to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge. Rubio s letter, which his office released Friday, also cites reports reports by WJXT-TV Channel 4 news about deplorable conditions at the apartments. ....
Mice, roaches, weeds: I-TEAM tackles complaints at Eastside complex Residents of Eastside Terrace complain of infestation, garbage Published: Updated: Tags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mice, roaches and piles of garbage top the list of things the I-TEAM discovered across from a government housing complex on Jacksonville’s Eastside. Residents at the Eastside Terrace HUD complex on East 7th Street called News4Jax for help, claiming no one seemed to care about their neglected area. But the I-TEAM got involved and got results within days. We got the complaints into our tip line and found the evidence right when we pulled up at the complex, which is near Matthew Gilbert Middle School. As we first turned the corner, we noticed a lot: the trash, the weeds, beer bottles, soda cans, a bra. ....