{"id":5912,"date":"2026-10-14T07:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/northern-village-residents-demand-county-help\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:28:39","slug":"northern-village-residents-demand-county-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/northern-village-residents-demand-county-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Village Residents Demand County Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> CLAYTON, MO \u2013 October 14, 2026 (STL.News) Residents of Northern Village Apartments in north St. Louis County appealed to the St. Louis County Council Tuesday evening, demanding help as deteriorating living conditions, unpaid utility bills, and the possibility of condemnation threaten to displace about 150 families. The October 13 council meeting renewed attention to years of complaints about inadequate heating, unreliable hot water, sewage backups, mold, water damage, and other potentially hazardous conditions at the apartment complex near Lucas and Hunt Road and Interstate 70. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FQBImOCzsSS8%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Northern Village residents demand help from St. Louis County Council\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QBImOCzsSS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> Despite tenant testimony and growing concerns about a potential housing emergency, council members<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/northern-village-residents-demand-county-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAYTON, MO \u2013 October 14, 2026 (STL.News) Residents of Northern Village Apartments in north St. Louis County appealed to the St. Louis County Council Tuesday evening, demanding help as deteriorating living conditions, unpaid utility bills, and the possibility of condemnation&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}