Everyone is being kicked out of Tymberskan Apartments. But not everyone can afford to leave.
Tonight, some are packing up while others say they are hoping for a miracle.
It’s no question, life in the Tymber Skan apartments is tough. The complex off Texas Avenue is considered a blighted community. Bags of trash are piled up on street curbs. There are burned out and boarded up units. Squatters are also a problem, as is crime.
Cecelia Thompson has lived in the TymberSkan apartments for nearly seven years. This year she said was the worst.
“2015 has not been a good year for me. I got shot up. My son got killed and now I’m being thrown out,” she said.
But for some 30 families, Tymberskan is home.
The residents say they got less than a week's notice to move out. They were told within a year, Tymberskan would be demolished.
But many of the residents say they have nowhere else to go, especially on such short notice. Many do not have the money to move.
Thompson is trying to get her truck working, so she can start packing. She said she feels like an animal being abandoned in the street, with nowhere to go.
Nancy Vargas said she feels the same way.
“We have no choice but to go," Vargas said. "On the streets or in a shelter or hopefully they give us a voucher.”
But she says this is not the way to treat people. “I don’t think it’s right to shut the place down and leave us to go nowhere.”
Now they are hoping Orange County will them find new places to live.
The county has stepped in to help residents in other blighted communities in the past year, including Blossom Park Condos in south Orange County.
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