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Hartford fire victims without permanent housing as landlord, city negotiate – NBC Connecticut
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Hartford fire victims without permanent housing as landlord, city negotiate – NBC Connecticut

Residents of Concord Hills Apartments In Hartford, they say they are still living in temporary housing nearly three months after a fire displaced 50 households.

“I have nowhere to go,” Olga Amandon said. “I’m thinking about what I’m going to do next, because you’ve been living in the same place for 20 years and you’ve lost everything.”

The fire originally broke out in Amandon’s apartment. She said even though she wasn’t in the fire, she lives with the trauma every day.

“I’m almost 70 years old and I’m asking GreyHill to get ready and settle down,” Amandon said. “Help us, because they will be successful here in Connecticut if they do the right thing.”

The property is owned by the GreyHill Group, which is based in New York and has an extensive real estate portfolio.

NBC Connecticut contacted the company, which says it is working to meet with residents. He also said the city had placed a lien on the business.

The city said the lien did not prevent GreyHill Group from working on the building and that it had offered to pay the remaining cost of the restorations.

“We share the discontent,” said Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam. “We share the tenants’ frustration with this landlord.”

GreyHill Group said it would not work on the restorations until the lien was removed.

“We communicate with them almost daily right now,” Arulampalam said. “What we really need is to repair these units, make the repairs, finish them and get them back online. »

The city will stop funding temporary housing for residents on December 8, and at this time there are no plans to extend that deadline. It offers residents up to $4,000 to help with a security deposit and first month’s rent for alternative permanent housing.