The company managing the property says it fell into disrepair after a Venezuelan gang took over, which the city refutes.
Aurora is kicking out the residents of this apartment complex, most of them Venezuelan migrants, citing neglect and public nuisance violations by the property owner.We're in the midst of our summer membership campaign, and we have until August 25 to raise $14,500. Your contributions are an investment in our election coverage – they help sustain our newsroom, help us plan, and could lead to an increase in freelance writers or photographers.
The apartment complex has had"substantial, longstanding, unresolved code violations," according to an August 5 statement from Aurora spokesperson Ryan Luby. The city is also taking legal action against CBZ property manager Zev Baumgarten for eight building and vehicle code violations; he is set for a jury trial in the Aurora Municipal Court beginning on August 27.
"Now we're taking on the burden of another person who's not worried about this," says Edwin Macero, a Venezuelan migrant who moved into the apartment complex six months ago. "I don't have anyone's help. I work, and the little I make I put toward feeding my family here. I don't have anywhere to go with my family. I'm worried, but we need to stay calm."
"There have been a lot of occasions where we're stuck without water, without lights. There are people who have been stuck for three months without lights," Ordoñez says."We were staying here without water for fifteen days. And then there's problems with pests, too. There are a lot of things like that."
The CBZ representative, who calls himself a"property investor," says that no one from the management company has been at the property for the past six weeks. Complex residents say that they haven't seen managers around for the past few weeks, either. Calls to the Aurora Police Department from the property nearly doubled from 2022 to 2023 and are on track to double again this year. According to the APD, officers investigated 41 crimes on the property in 2022, 84 in 2023 and 64 this year as of July 31, including reports of robbery, sexual assault and drugs. Last September, the APD declared the property a criminal nuisance.
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