South Albany woman uniting tenants over health concerns

(ALBANY, GA) – A South Albany woman is uniting tenants against a property management groups over health concerns that she feels are falling on deaf ears.

April Andrews wasn’t having any issues at Treeside Park Apartments for the first couple of months of her lease, and then problems began to arise.

“At any given time between i want to say April and now, we would wake up in the morning and the floor would be covered with water, for whatever reason,” says Andrews.

But leaky pipes and standing water are just the tip of the iceberg.

Andrews says that she and her sick mother have’nt been able to use their bathroom for more than two weeks…

She tells us, “There’s literal sewage in our tubs and toilets that’s been sitting there for months…They have done nothing to fix it. We keep getting told that they’re going to do something about it, and it never gets done. It simply gets worse.”

That’s why with the help of the Albany NAACP, Andrews is gathering fellow tenants to create a residents union; with the hopes of bringing the problems to the attention of local city and county officials

But that may be easier said than done.

“I think a large part of why I think the tenants have not gone to corporate, is for a number of reasons. One: because I don’t think they have the knowledge. They don’t think that they can. A lot of these people are set up in situations where, economically, they have fallen in that zeitgeist where they have lost jobs due to COVID…”

While the problems persist, Andrews says she doesn’t fault those in charge locally, but wants to see changes before a bad situation gets even worse.

South Georgia TV reached out to the property management group’s corporate office, we’re still awaiting an answer.