National housing advocates call on HUD to investigate Forest Cove's owner

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Twenty-four local and national tenant advocacy groups signed a letter to HUD asking the department to hold the for-profit company Millennia accountable for housing conditions they describe as “hazardous” and “horrendous.” (Alphonso Whitfield/WABE)

Local and national housing advocates are calling for the federal government to investigate the owner of Atlanta’s deteriorating Forest Cove apartments.

In a letter to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, they claim the company operates several federally-funded properties in slum-like conditions.

The letter lists six properties across the country, including Atlanta’s Forest Cove. All have long histories with issues like mold, infestations and crime and all now belong to the Cleveland-based Millennia.