Leaders in the City of Warren and some residents are looking into legal action against a landlord that they say has been neglecting a low-income housing area. Tenants at Stonegate Place say conditions have been getting worse over the past three years. 

Some say during the bitter temperatures these past few weeks they had to go without hot water, heat or power. Others say there's garbage lying around and the buildings are not secure, which makes it easy for squatters to come in.

The low-income housing in Warren's Westside has more than 100 units and has been owned by Green National Property Management since 2019. 

Things got even worse for some tenants after a fire broke out on Wednesday. Fire officials believe it started between the second and third floors walls of one of the buildings. Two buildings are now boarded up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and a handful of tenants are displaced.

Warren City Councilman Todd Johnson has requested the city's law department move forward with legal action to force the property into the hands of a new owner - in hopes that the next managers would bring things back to acceptable conditions. 

The city of Syracuse, New York had similar issues with Green National. In 2023, the city requested Green National give up four properties and pay $1 million to cover repairs and maintenance of the buildings. The city claimed the properties had unfit living conditions and had “repeated instances of serious crime.”

21 News has made multiple attempts to contact the property owners for comment but they could not be reached.

Tenants are invited to a meeting on Thursday, Jan 30 at 5:30p.m. at the Warren Family Mission. Councilman Johnson and attorneys will be going over what the next steps are and what rights the tenants have for their own legal action.