A Liberty City apartment complex has been in the spotlight recently due to complaints from its tenants about the deplorable living conditions. Now the building is facing a power outage this Friday due to illegal and outdated power meters, which the landlord has not updated.
This has put the complex at risk of losing electricity. The Miami Workers Center social group has started a funding effort to protect the tenants. Adrian Madriz works with the group.
"We’re already in conversation with the city about the general slumlord situation but this immediate problem of their power being shut off on Friday is really bad," said Madriz. "Because we’ve got people living on dialysis machines in this building. And if the power goes off, those machines go off. So we need to get that figured out."
David Brown lives connected to a wound vaccum machine to treat his stage-four ulcer.
"I just hope and pray that the power don’t go off," Brown says. "If it do, I have to go back to the hospital immediately. It can get infected. So I just appreciate the landowner [or] somebody come up with some kind of solution to stop this problem."
The Miami Workers Center has started a GoFundMe page to pay for the updates on the power meters. To fund the upgrades, they will have to raise $20,000 to $30,000 by Friday.
The tenants have been living in apartments with mold, mushrooms, leaks and roaches. Many of them have children and have been complaining to the landlord.
