Conditions have not improved at troubled Hollywood apartment complex, attorneys say

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The owners of a troubled apartment complex in the Hollywood neighborhood have until October 27 to come up with a plan to fix the structural issues, sewage problems and lack of running water inside. "It's so disheartening to know that people live this way," explained Carlissa Shaw, special attorney for the City of Memphis, "and that for a long time, our code enforcement officers have worked specifically on this file over the last couple of years to bring the property into compliance and weren't able to do so." As FOX13 has reported for weeks, the complex with no name has issues with raw human sewage, rats, cockroaches, broken windows, mold and utilities. Earlier this month, code enforcement officers testified that some renters have to defecate in plastic bags becaus