Residents ordered to vacate home on Ash Street

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

According to information provided by the city of Nevada, the residents of this house at 323 N. Ash Street were ordered on Monday to vacate the house within 72 hours after the building inspector, while conducting a routine inspection found serious deficiencies that endangered the occupants. After a complete report on the building was made, in compliance with the city's dangerous building code, the building inspector and the code administrator reviewed the report and then toured the structure. The code administrator then issued an emergency order to vacate the structure. According to the city information, the tenants were served the order to vacate on Monday and the city staff contacted the Missouri Division of Family Services to provide necessary assistance to the residents. The report will be sent to the building owner and to the prosecuting attorney for any further action.

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There are a number of rentals in town as bad or worse than this one. I have done work on several.

-- Posted by TerryB on Wed, Oct 6, 2010, at 4:23 PM
I am glad that "they" are now doing something. There are many rentals in town that are horrible. People should be safe in their homes. My grandmother lived in the upstairs northeast appartment in the late 60's. It needed work then. It's nice to see the city inspector working on these issues.

-- Posted by Butch56 on Wed, Oct 6, 2010, at 6:10 PM
YOU DON'T SUPPOSE THE CITY NEEDS THE LAND FOR ANOTHER ONE OF THEIR PROJECTS DO YOU? JUST A THOUGHT.

-- Posted by resident65 on Thu, Oct 7, 2010, at 9:50 AM
The information in this article is incorrect. The Mo Dept. of Family Services is doing nothing to help the residents of these apartments nor is the city. When both was contacted they said that the information that was printed was false. They did however give them 72 hours to get out. The residents of these apartments do not have the money or the resources to get another home, or they would have long before now.

-- Posted by concerned22 on Thu, Oct 7, 2010, at 12:23 PM
It doesn't say DFS is doing anything, but rather that city staff contacted them about providing services, so the article looks accurate, concerned. I do hope someone provides an update. How many people were displaced?

-- Posted by tfallin on Fri, Oct 8, 2010, at 6:06 PM
There is no emergency housing in Nevada. It can take 6 weeks or more, even if you qualify, to get into public housing. Moss house is for battered women and children only.

-- Posted by TerryB on Sat, Oct 9, 2010, at 9:11 AM
I would like to know WHO owns the house?

-- Posted by Msfinelady on Tue, Oct 12, 2010, at 7:27 AM
Thank you code administrator for thinking about the safety of the residents. You say serious deficiencies, so I'm assuming it is SAFER for the residents to live outside, than inside.

When you order people to vacate, where do you suggest they go, your house?

-- Posted by nonessential on Sat, Oct 16, 2010, at 5:59 PM
Don't feel bad ther titanicsdoom, I get cansored everytime I post a comment about any topic here lately. It about ****** me off. I guess it hurts the wrong people's feelings. Maybe the city will start up a commtety to take the ones we hurt.

Maybe the city needs to worry about some of the other houses in town, many more are in worse condition than this one mentioned in this artical.

-- Posted by Farmhand on Sat, Oct 16, 2010, at 9:23 PM
It is clear that the city don't care about the people that pay there salary's. Yes most of the house's that need to be looked at are rentals, and the renters don't pay property taxes but they still pay for water and sales taxes on everthing they buy in town. But there is a house that is less than a block from my house here in town thats been empty for close to twelve years and don't even have a floor in it. If you look through the windows you can see the dirt. So maybe the city needs to worry about unoccupied houses that be bought for a low price and someone could fix it and live there for cheap rent. But the city is after the almighty buck.

Something just ain't right in this town.

-- Posted by Farmhand on Mon, Oct 18, 2010, at 11:53 PM

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