Vision and Beyond

The $400,000 in funding will go to fix chronic sewage leaks at Kirby Apartments and keep the building from needing to be vacated. But conditions at that property and several others remain dire months after they were abandoned by Vision & Beyond.

A building inspector for the city of Cincinnati told a judge last week that sewage has leaked into units at the Kirby Apartments in Mt. Airy more than 100 times in the last decade.

A sewage leak and other ongoing issues have prompted the city of Cincinnati to make emergency repairs.

Roughly a dozen tenants of former Vision & Beyond properties and housing activists delivered a petition to the company tasked with temporary property management asking for better conditions and other demands.

Vision & Beyond cofounder Stas Grinberg is currently being held at a federal detention center in Houston on fraud charges.

On Cincinnati Edition, we discuss the details of the legal battle over the properties.

Residents report extended periods without heat, ceilings falling down and water leaks. But help might be coming soon.

The city of Cincinnati wrote in a Jan. 3 court filing that Vision & Beyond left hundreds of renters without someone to call for help if something went wrong with their housing when it "abandoned" more than 70 properties across the city.