City workers began boarding up the Elmwood Heights apartments on Elmwood Avenue on Thursday morning, about a month after a Housing Court judge issued an order for the building at 597 Elmwood Ave. to be vacated.
The City of Buffalo Department of Permit and Inspection Services condemned the building in March. Since then, city officials began engaging residents to help them find alternate temporary and permanent housing, Permit and Inspections Commissioner Cathy Amdur said.
Some residents say their affection for the Elmwood Village is being tested by what they see as a growing problem of crime and quality-of-life issues on Elmwood between Lexington Avenue and Summer Street.
On Wednesday, the final two remaining tenants moved out, she said.
“We helped them carry their things and found them transportation. We made sure that they were speaking to the appropriate agencies and we’re doing everything we can to help them find temporary and permanent housing,” Amdur said during a news conference outside the apartment building in Buffalo’s Elmwood Village neighborhood.
Amdur said she did not have information on what proportion of the building’s former residents found permanent housing versus only temporary housing. She said that only…
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