Crestview Towers Residents Gather To Protest Lack Of Work Being Done To Repair The Property

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The North Miami Beach condo evacuated backmost successful July was erstwhile again the country of a protest.

“From the 2nd of July to present I outcry each time due to the fact that I privation my home,” said 83-year-old Sonya.

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Sonya, a Holocaust survivor, for much than 25 years has called Crestview Towers home. But backmost successful July, the condo was deemed unsafe. Now, for the past 4 months she’s been fundamentally homeless.

“I’m utilized to this my apartment, my bed, everything mine,” she said. “Now I enactment with a person there… past different person instrumentality me.”

On Tuesday, Sonya and different Crestview Towers residents gathered to protestation the deficiency of enactment being done to repair the property.

“It’s been already 4 months and we’re inactive successful limbo,” said Yanosh Serebryanik.

Maria Echevarria added, “It’s thing being done. Now they’re telling america we’re not going backmost until adjacent year.”

CBS4 reached retired to Katzman Chandler, the lawyer for Crestview Towers’ homeowner association. We ne'er heard back.

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But backmost connected September 9, they sent CBS4 a connection saying they are pulling permits and “we afloat expect that the enactment indispensable to safely reopen the gathering volition beryllium completed by the extremity of September 2021.”

Residents accidental not lone has that not happened, but present they are determination being told the wealth for the repairs person been spent.

“They accidental due to the fact that of the evacuation and the hotels and this and that, the wealth is gone,” Echevarria said. “So they don’t person wealth to proceed working.”

News that has Holocaust survivors Sonya and Liya emotional.

“It’s not capable to wars successful Russia, and present different war,” said Liya Rozenshteyn.

“How tin this be? This is America. America not bash this to people,” Sonya said.

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Now, successful the meantime, the homeowners accidental they having to proceed to wage their mortgages and appraisal to repair the building. It’s wealth they accidental is hard to travel by since they are besides having to find impermanent housing.

Bobeth Yates