I just can’t help but think after reading that, did they care to really do maintenance in the “black area”? Even if they had their own folks, did they refuse to sell them adequate supplies? It seems like it could have been a terrible mess.

Here is a very interesting read on Prospect Homes:

https://cambriamemory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/A-Restrained-Militancy-Johnstowns-Postwar-Black-Community.pdf (Page 5/151)

Basically it started out to where many whites in 1943 refused to even sign their leases because “they didn’t want to live with black people”.

It basically was the way until around 1970 when the courts stepped in and basically said every JTown Housing Property has almost no black persons except Prospect.

It really makes you wonder how much care & maintenance they would have gotten on that almost 30 years of first existence.

Yea, something definitely is going on.

The local media stated that JHA would not even explain to residents what the issue was during their individual meetings. Originally they refused to even tell the newspaper.

I do find it odd that various Facebook & Review Sites comments keep saying about mold and leaking pipes.

It just seems odd to me that if it was entirely just old age, why wouldn’t they go “These apartments are very old and need major repairs”.

Something just feels very off with this story. I just can’t quite figure it out, but for the most part JHA has been very decent with maintenance & upkeep, at least in other properties of theirs.

This seems like a very strange decision, especially when they have similar properties in the area.

Either some of the theories here are right, which is sad, or something more major is going on.

I do know that these are pretty much the only housing property that JHA has that is built on the hillside. The rest are basically flat land. I wonder if various types of water damage to foundations or something similar.

I keep having a strange feeling that they will cancel the 30-day move notice, but I can’t explain the feeling.