The Freeze Damaged Austin Apartments. Now Some Tenants Want To End Their Leases; Others Have Nowhere To Go.
KUT Jenn Brown (left) helps Kristen Carpenter move out of her Round Rock apartment earlier this month. Carpenter's landlord terminated her lease because of property damage from the February winter storm. The walls of Ann Marie Romero’s one-bedroom apartment in Northeast Austin are speckled with mold. She hasn’t lived there since mid-February, when pipes burst because of freezing temperatures, soaking much of her furniture and clothes. Romero has been sleeping on friends’ sofas; this week she’ll tally her fifth couch in two months. “I’m still very much living in survival mode,...
Source: kut.org