Broken-down cars and furniture sat curbside. The city was leasing eight apartments at the complex off Glenwood Avenue, and subletting one to Frank Jacobs. There's a lot of dope. The apartments at 1701 Remount Road are even worse. Windows and doors are broken or covered at the apartment atop the hill near West Boulevard.
Rats scurry into the courtyard from the field out back.
The city was renting No. 8 to house relocated people. It was vacant one recent morning, and the landlord boarded it up. A resident watched her daughter and friends play kickball in the parking lot littered with broken glass. Family was moved into a mess Most of the 157 city-leased apartments and houses that Sturm has at her disposal are in decent shape. Almost always, Sturm said, each residence passes a city inspection before a new tenant moves in.