Problems at the Palms Apartments on Marconi Avenue in Arden-Arcade are continuing this weekend after a man was shot there Friday night. It comes after a rally this week for changes at the same property.

There are boards on almost every window, padlocks on the doors and dilapidated roofs on the complex, but six multi-generational families still call the complex home.

"The tenants have lived through atrocious slumlord conditions for years and years and years," said organizer for the Sacramento Valley Tenants Union Christina Sanchez Juarez.

The Sacramento Valley Tenants Union said the landlord is trying to "renovict" the residents or force them to leave since the renovations on the run-down apartments will take more than 30 days to complete.

"In some cases, some of them are very, very afr

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