Dozens of renters in this North Austin apartment complex say they've lived without hot water for years.
Gabby Garcia, a program coordinator with Building and Strengthening Tenant Action, stands in front of renters protesting living conditions in their apartment complex.Ella Stewart typically showers at her gym. That’s because the water at her apartment in North Austin is either scalding hot or freezing cold – never a temperature comfortable for bathing.
“I just took a shower and it was super hot and super cold, and I had to keep going back and forth, which was very annoying,” Stewart, 21, said. Stewart joined about a dozen neighbors Wednesday afternoon to protest living conditions at Creeks Edge Apartments, just north of 183. The group held handmade signs that ticked off their demands: refunds on rent, immediate repairs and action from Austin’s Code Department.
It’s unclear if they will get any of what they’re asking for. The complex, which consists of 200 units, is owned by a corporation that traces back to GVA Management, a real estate management and investment company with an office in Austin. GVA did not respond to a request for comment.Creeks Edge Apartment is owned by a limited liability corporation that traces back to GVA Management, a real estate management and investment company with an office in Austin.
Organizers with the nonprofit Building and Strengthening Tenant Action, or BASTA, estimate that nearly half of the people living in these apartments have not had consistent hot water.“There is no hot water. And sometimes there is no water at all,” she said in Spanish. Cambron described how she and her husband lived without water for a month after the winter freeze in 2021.
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