With no heat for 2 months, Jersey City apartment building tenants are fighting back
Some tenants of an apartment building in Jersey City’s West Side neighborhood spent Christmas in a hotel this year, but not because they were traveling. They’ve been without heat because of a broken boiler and a dispute with their landlord.
Tenants of the eight-unit building at 96 Duncan Ave. say they alerted their landlord, Angela Morello Lange, about the broken boiler in early November, but as of late December it remains unfixed.
Lange told The Jersey Journal repairs have been held up by supply chain and COVID-19 delays, but Jersey City officials ultimately stepped in and offered the eight families living there — one of which includes a newborn child — emergency housing at a hotel on Dec. 18 as overnight temperatures dipped below freezing.
Now, with legal help from the Jersey City-based Waterfront Project and support from local tenant organizing groups, the tenants are mounting a campaign to get their heat turned back on.
Read more: https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/01/with-no-heat-for-2-months-jersey-city-apartment-building-tenants-are-fighting-back.html
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