Tallahassee Housing Authority vows to assist Orange Avenue tenants after ‘extremely rare’ lawsuit settlement

A lawsuit against the Tallahassee Housing Authority (THA) by residents forced out of the Orange Avenue Apartments was dismissed after the agency agreed to bolster its assistance to the former South City residents and settled out of court.

In Friday’s settlement, sent to the Tallahassee Democrat by the housing authority, the agency agreed to 30 stipulations that heavily affect its redevelopment plan and general practices. 

Those stipulations include the requirement that THA give residents who relocated because of the redevelopment “first priority” on the newly-built units. Former tenants must be offered units with the same number of bedrooms as their previous unit.  

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