ATLANTA — Work is underway to fix a major air conditioning problem at a senior living center in southwest Atlanta.
For months, residents have complained about living in the sweltering heat.
Project manager Jason Shaw at Friendship Tower Apartments promised work would begin Tuesday morning.
A judge held another emergency meeting to find out where things stand with the air conditioning at the apartments Monday afternoon.
Judge: So you have a lot of work you're going to do this week?
Shaw: Yes sir
Judge: So have you replaced some of those individual room units whatever you call them?
Shaw: Yes sir.
Judge: Because supposedly that's what's going to work.
Close to 100 rooms at Friendship Towers haven't had working central A/C for months.
"I'm just tired. What I found out yesterday is our church don't mean God, that's what I found out," said community activist Derrick Boazman.
Several residents went to Friendship Baptist Church, which owns the facility, and demanded Reverend Emmanuel McCall experience what they're living with during the middle of this heat wave.
"Hands on, to see some of the rooms, some of the hallways," Boazman said. "It's his moral duty as a preacher."
Boazman, who is fighting for the residents, says McCall was supposed to visit Friendship Towers Monday at noon but says he got a call from him late Sunday.
"Saying that the lawyers told him there's a consent order that forbids him to go," Boazman said. "He's not coming so this is another litany of broken promises."
Channel 2 Action News reached out to everyone involved.
According to a representative for the residents, a Fulton County judge is supposed to visit the towers again Wednesday to check on conditions and see if the rent abatement for all the residents needs to continue past July.
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