Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton reports on the business beat at The Denver Post. Previously, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a Capitol Hill reporter at Bloomberg Government, covering agriculture and trade policy. Megan received her master's in mass communication from Arizona State University.
Residents on Monday afternoon at the Fitzsimons Place apartment complex in Aurora on Aug. 5, 2024. The city planned to condemn the building in coming days, notifying residents as soon as Aug. 7 and giving them until Aug. 13 to vacate. The decision took some residents by surprise and will leave much of the immigrant population at risk of being left without a new residence.
Residents who spoke to The Denver Post on Monday begged for more time. Some proposed that the government contribute funds for them to restore and take care of the complex on their own — as a kind of tenant self-rule. Over the weekend, men consolidated sprawling trash heaps around the overflowing dumpsters that hadn’t been emptied in weeks; on Monday, they tried to raise money to hire a trash hauler to take it all away.
But Luby, the city spokesperson, said shutting down the apartment building is the final and “only remaining” step in a long legal process with the building’s managers. Aurora officials plan to work with the state government and metro Denver nonprofit groups to help find housing for people displaced, Luby said, while acknowledging the city had a limited ability to provide assistance.On Monday, the area in front of Fitzsimons Place was dotted with abandoned grocery carts and full trash bags. One man sat among a collection of furniture set up outdoors. It’s the largest complex on the block, and also the most rundown.
The security threats grew so worrying, the person said, that no staff member has worked on site for the last six weeks, and it’s been that long since garbage was picked up. “I don’t go out of my unit when I’m here,” said Yorkes Ramos, 35, a resident who has been cleaning houses part time and washing dishes at a restaurant on weekends to make rent., a criminal organization that originated in a Venezuelan prison. It’s become known for taking advantage of migrants through smuggling and trafficking activities, particularly in Latin America.
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