{"id":124504,"date":"2026-01-20T04:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:22:06","slug":"jacksonville-senior-center-loses-heat-again-days-after-it-was-restored-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124504\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville senior center loses heat again, days after it was restored \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Action News Jax has reported four times in the last four weeks about the seniors at Riverton Tower Senior Center<\/a> in Arlington reporting a lack of heat or A\/C altogether. <\/p>\n

Last week, Ability Housing, the Jacksonville-based nonprofit that owns the apartments, let us know the heat had been restored. Over the weekend, people living at the senior center told us they lost it again. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t understand how it could be working well one night and then not working well the next night. I can\u2019t explain that,\u201d said Bob Wunderlich, in the third interview he\u2019s now done with us in the last week about his heat, or lack of it. <\/p>\n

We spoke with Wunderlich last Tuesday, when he reported that his and other apartments at Riverton Tower<\/a> still didn\u2019t have working heat, weeks after we first reported the problem. Two days later, he told us his heat had been restored, and he\u2019d had his first warm night in months. <\/p>\n

Today, he told us he had lost his heat over the weekend, less than four days after having it back. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is frustrating, and it will continue to be frustrating until they fix the problem,\u201d Wunderlich said. <\/p>\n

Ability Housing told us that this heat-related problem happened because the building\u2019s main boiler stopped working on Monday morning, which the organization said is not related to the issue we had previously reported on. Right after 7:30 PM, the nonprofit told us the heat had been restored and that staff would monitor it throughout the night to ensure there weren\u2019t any other issues. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want us all to be able to be warm or comfortable or whatever it needs to be,\u201d said Dixie Smith, another Riverton Tower resident who also<\/a> interviewed with us for the third time<\/a> after losing her heat again, too. <\/p>\n

Smith is one of the neighbors at Riverton Tower who reported her heat problem to the city of Jacksonville, which has now given at least nine citations to the apartments over the last month. We looked through them and found that five of the citations were related to a lack of A\/C in some apartments. The other four citations were because of poor conditions inside the building, such as damage to the interior stairs, a broken glass window on the first floor, and an elevator that \u2018excessively moves side to side.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a beautiful place, and I believe something can make it work. But this is not it right now,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n

Ability Housing has told us that space heaters have been provided to anyone in the apartment who has needed one, and more are available if they are needed. The nonprofit has also said it is working with neighbors to allow them temporary housing outside of the complex, such as at a nearby motel or a family member\u2019s house, if they are unable to comfortably stay inside. <\/p>\n

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