A Collin County judge ordered all tenants to vacate the property by Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
PLANO, Texas \u2014 Tenants living at the Evana Grove Apartments<\/a> in Plano are being forced to move out after a judge ruled the complex is no longer safe to live in.<\/p>\n A Collin County judge ordered all tenants to vacate the property by Nov. 4, after city officials said the apartments were unsafe and unsanitary, with no working gas, water or sewage, and extensive infrastructure problems.<\/p>\n Francisco Aguila and his family have lived at Evana Grove for nearly 20 years. He told WFAA that the complex has steadily deteriorated in recent years.<\/p>\n \u201cThe past four or five years, it\u2019s just been going south and south,\u201d Aguila said.<\/p>\n Aguila said at one point, cockroaches were coming out of the air vents. Another tenant sent photos and videos of mice inside their unit. City officials say the property has nearly 1,500 code violations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a travesty,\u201d said Curtis Howard, director of neighborhood services for the City of Plano. \u201cThese people don\u2019t deserve to live like this.\u201d<\/p>\n A letter taped to residents\u2019 doors stated that tenants in good standing could transfer to one of four sister properties without paying a new deposit. The letter also said the company will help with moving costs.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really want to avoid people becoming homeless, especially at this time,\u201d Howard said.<\/p>\n WFAA reached out to the property\u2019s owners and management but has not received a response. Aguila said his family has already found a new home, but he\u2019s thinking about the neighbors still searching.<\/p>\n \u201cYou just see people suffering in this moment, especially when they have nowhere else to go,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Howard said the city is working with local nonprofits and housing groups to help residents find new places to live. If you need assistance, you\u2019re urged to call the Neighborhood Services Department at (972) 208-8150<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Collin County judge ordered all tenants to vacate the property by Nov. 4. PLANO, Texas \u2014 Tenants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-28492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}