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Stained and smelly carpet in off campus apartment Tuscaloosa, Ala. —  A move-in nightmare. University of Alabama students are calling conditions in off campus apartments "deplorable." "There's all these stains and as you come in you can smell kinda the mildew in the apartment," said Marisela Soria as she walked us through the apartment her college sophomore daughter was supposed to move into Saturday. "She can't live here, it's unacceptable for anybody to live in these conditions." The apartment above Soria's smelling so strongly of urine we had to plug our noses while inside. And one after another students and parents sent us pictures and videos of the conditions inside the apartments at Campus Evolution Villages . The apartments are about two miles from the University of Alabama. It is not owned by the University but the apartment's website says it's at the heart of the University of Alabama and close to Shelton State Community C...

For more than two years, city inspectors have documented unsafe and squalid conditions at a weekly hotel near uptown that houses low-income families with children, the disabled and others with nowhere else to go. Inspectors found rooms with no heat or air conditioning , piles of garbage, bedbugs and broken windows among other problems at the Airport Parkway Inn and Suites. Former tenants and a neighboring business complain the building on Wilkinson Boulevard is a magnet for drugs and crime. Now, Charlotte officials are taking steps that could lead to the demolition of the hotel, a rare move the city has not taken in at least seven years against a lodging establishment. The building is part of a virtually unnoticed housing sector in Charlotte, where hundreds of people suffering from addiction and mental illness or simply with few other options depend on weekly hotel rooms for permanent shelter. While tenants avoid sleeping on the streets, they often stay in decrepit and vermin-in...