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Date: May 19th, 2024 7:07 AM Author: pink domesticated school cafeteria sounds like good exercise:
Residents of Seattle low-income high-rise go a week without elevators
Hundreds living at The Rise on Madison, a 17-story, income-restricted apartment complex in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood, have gone a week without elevators, and a fix is nowhere in sight.
No residents have been injured due to the broken elevator system and the companies that own and manage the property are “scrambling” to relocate residents into a nearby hotel, said Susan Boyd, CEO of Bellwether Housing, which owns the top 12 stories of the complex located at Boylston Avenue and Madison Street.
There’s no estimate on when the building’s five elevators will be running again because they all require new parts to be delivered and installed, she said.
“We’re prioritizing the highest need, least ambulatory people — people who have doctors appointments they have to get to on a regular basis or who live high up and have children,” Boyd said. “We’re doing everything we can to source (elevator) parts in creative ways so that this fix can happen as soon as possible.”
The elevator system broke early May 11 after firefighters’ response to an eighth-floor fire left water in the basement that damaged “critical components of the elevators,” said Gabriele Nomura Gainor, a spokesperson for Plymouth Housing, which owns the first five floors of the building.
Firefighters returned to help carry some residents down the stairs and out of the building, Boyd said.
By Thursday, people working for Bellwether Housing and Plymouth Housing and property management company Avenue5 had tried contacting residents of the building’s more than 350 units by email, phone or knocking on their doors to communicate with them about the elevators, Boyd said.
Firefighters carried some residents who were unable to walk down the stairs out of the building. Residents of six units were relocated to a nearby, wheelchair-accessible hotel on Wednesday, and another 10 were expected to be relocated to the hotel on Thursday. Residents of 27 other units have signed up to move into the hotel next, she said.
The building’s owners and Avenue5 have had daily “emergency calls” since Tuesday with the American Red Cross and several city agencies, including Aging & Disability Services, the Office of Housing and the Human Services Department Boyd said.
Avenue5 has hired a “runner” to carry packages to residents up and down the steps and is looking to hire someone to walk residents’ pets. Two “pet relief areas” were set to be installed on two floors of the building Thursday, Boyd said earlier this week.
Plymouth Housing employees have been going door-to-door to supply food and water and the company is paying for a resident on one of the floors it owns to relocate to a nearby hotel, Nomura Gainor said.
“I’m sure that people are very frustrated, but they have an avenue to help if they need it,” Boyd said.
Stephanie Lloyd-Agnew, 62, moved into the building last year and said the elevator situation has caused immense stress to residents. She said there’s been an overall lack of communication between management and the residents about what happened and how those in need can get support, resulting in confusion among the residents.
“It is so weighing heavily on my mind,” she said.
Lloyd-Agnew, who lives on the sixteenth floor, said it’s been a struggle to constantly go up and down the stairs: “When you get to the bottom, you’re so tired.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/residents-of-seattle-low-income-high-rise-go-a-week-without-elevators/ |