SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski is demanding to know why a building management company accused of failing to provide safe and clean living conditions in one of its Springfield-based apartment buildings has not taken action.

Budzinski, a Democrat who represents Illinois’ 13 th congressional district, sent a letter Monday to Pacific Management Inc., seeking answers about Sangamon Towers, 424 N. Fourth St., which residents and workers say is plagued by bedbugs, mold, human waste in public places and insufficient security protocols.

The privately owned building receives funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide affordable housing for low-income, elderly and disabled residents.

“We don’t operate like that and those are things I don’t expect t

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