BTA!! Dr Candice Matthews and The City Whip Some A$$ at The Life of Jackson Square

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-25

[00:00:01]THAT'S THAT'S OUR NEW COUNTY ATTORNEY, Y'ALL.

[00:00:06]>> Thank you for being out here. I appreciate it.

[00:00:08]>> Yes. Yes, we got her already here.

[00:00:10]>> I know that um city inspectors are already on site again. So, they're >> I think walking around I haven't been able to see where they are, but I know that they're here.

[00:00:19]>> Well, let me go and get you right in here right quick because I know you got to go. So, I got to get her right on in here because uh this our new county attorney now. Hold on. Just one more.

[00:00:30]>> Congratulations.

[00:00:32]Soon to be soon to be. Yes.

[00:00:34]>> Yes. Still on council for one more week fighting and >> that's all right.

[00:00:40]>> Oh, baby. They they got a whole full squad today.

[00:00:43]>> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The whole city is here today.

[00:00:47]>> And this is this was the this was the council woman, but now she's going to be in June the new county attorney.

[00:00:54]>> There he is.

[00:00:55]>> Yeah. So, so that new that code enforcement is what basically >> with the teeth that because we've been like that is going to help out a lot.

[00:01:04]>> Did I give you a mic? No.

[00:01:05]>> No.

[00:01:08]>> Oh, yeah. Cuz she here.

[00:01:10]>> You got a council person here. Yeah.

[00:01:12]They got to be like when you have officials, they have to be on site.

[00:01:15]Jason, >> y'all gonna get some good stuff. Hey, Jason. Happy Thursday. Um well I guess we can get them too to talk you know recognize you and you look so good.

[00:01:34]>> Oh thank you baby. I be try girl >> oh girl that's all right we got you here.

[00:01:43]>> Oh my god like you been here eight years ago.

[00:01:52]Over time we've been trying to bring see that multiple times to improve security and >> I see I got my cover help from everybody. Yeah, they in trouble they and they got fined but then I could see stuff too.

[00:02:07]>> So they've been fined a couple thousand dollar for that and then they now they had to get it processed because the owners are in New York.

[00:02:14]>> Uhhuh. So he on they roll with with that. He's with code enforcement. So he on they roll with that stuff baby. And then they gonna get a whole bunch of them.

[00:02:24]>> Uh that's gonna be per day per citation.

[00:02:27]And it's >> one thing we really need to do. So please spread the word. So inspectors can't legally get into apartments to issue citations unless they have a complaint from an actual resident.

[00:02:40]>> See, she was the council woman. Now she's going to be the county attorney >> according to them. And there's a record of that. But we >> So they got another I'm find out who that counciloman was. Okay.

[00:02:49]You're afraid of um >> Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. From a landlord, do it anonymously, but we need units that say my water waving at the >> There's mold. There's a rat. There's all those. We need those 311 reports so that our departments can legally come on site without their permission. So, please, please, please help spread the word.

[00:03:12]Mhm.

[00:03:16]>> Hey, friend.

[00:03:19]>> Hey.

[00:03:21]>> All right. Okay. Let's go and get started right quick.

[00:03:24]>> Couple more people coming.

[00:03:26]>> Oh. Oh, we got a couple more people.

[00:03:27]>> Four or five more people coming.

[00:03:28]>> Oh, okay. Okay.

[00:03:30]>> Okay. So, we got to wait for them. All right. Cool.

[00:03:33]>> All right. All right.

[00:03:34]>> How are you?

[00:03:35]>> So, we've been, just so you know, >> um, >> which way do you want him? Uh just I don't want to get the rain. Um >> we've been >> bringing the ownership to the table for years with HPD saying y'all got to clean this place up. It kept switching >> hands over and over again. Then they'd make promises, okay, we'll do X, Y, and Z to mitigate. We'll do the blue uh I think it's the blue star program or blue ribbon program with HPD. Then we'd have to wait on that. Then they installed security cameras. Then it cost too much.

[00:04:11]So, the new owners pull them back. Like, it's just been like whack-a-ole over and over again. Meanwhile, you have like boarded up windows, but also if you walk around, there'll be shattered windows that are not secure.

[00:04:23]>> Um, we've had multiple fires. We've had no hot water. We've had no running water. We've had grid power failures.

[00:04:29]Uh, the list goes on and on. So, we have funded overtime HPD patrols for the area throughout all of it through district funding. uh because this used to be one of the highest rates of domestic violence incidents >> in the city.

[00:04:44]>> We even asked the property owners if we could come on just to provide resources, but we need their legal permission to do that, right? And they wouldn't >> allow us to. Um we would do water distributions during disasters. Then we started funding additional health department inspections because as we filed the chapter 125 on criminal activity and risk, public safety risk, we still needed health and safety code.

[00:05:09]>> So the city didn't have the funds to do increased inspections. So I funded through our office, not only for this location, but citywide the remainder of the overtime funding for increased inspections for the rest of the fiscal year. Right? That's why we're seeing increasing citations and I think the word is getting out where residents I hope are becoming more comfortable reporting to the city. That's what we really need right now and that's if I can ask the public when you live >> in unacceptable >> living conditions that no one should be subjected to. I have little children here, grandb babies that ran into a burning building to wake up their grandparents because the smoke alarms and fire alarms didn't go off in the last fire.

[00:05:56]>> Wow.

[00:05:57]>> Horrific. If you have not working water, no hot water, mold, uh pest infestations, whatever that may be, please report to 311. I know that tenants can be very afraid of retribution.

[00:06:14]>> Yeah. and punishment from owners. You can do so anonymously, but spread the word because what happens is legally inspector health inspectors can't get into individual units and come onto the property without that actual complaint.

[00:06:31]Otherwise, we have to go through ownership and property management and get permission to come onto the property. Got it.

[00:06:36]>> So, you have please, please, please, we need your help. report to 311 what you're seeing inside a unit. Enlist a unit so that we can have our health inspectors get into those units to issue those gives them the authorization to get on the legal right to then enter because this is private property, >> right?

[00:06:56]>> And there are very strong property rights here in Texas. That's a blessing and it can be a curse. It's a curse when you have people suffering right here at Life of Jackson and also in the surrounding neighborhood, but it has a tremendous impact. But we're going to keep at it. We have a hearing with our chapter 125 lawsuit.

[00:07:13]>> Okay.

[00:07:14]>> In July against this property.

[00:07:16]>> Oh, we need to be there for that.

[00:07:18]>> There's a host of issues around this particular property. They filed what's called an HFC, Housing First Corporation. It's a tax abatement >> in Picos County. So, Picos County owns this. We aren't even getting the tax dollars. Make that make sense.

[00:07:34]>> So, this is in a whole different county.

[00:07:37]So they used a loophole to do that.

[00:07:38]>> They used a loophole. We tried to shut it down at the state legislature, but they had gotten this in before we did that.

[00:07:44]>> Oh.

[00:07:45]>> So we we're dealing with Picos County.

[00:07:47]We're dealing with ownership. But again, there's all these nuances because they're circumventing so many things.

[00:07:52]But the bottom line is they're not doing the right thing.

[00:07:54]>> Correct.

[00:07:55]>> They're not taking care of Houstononians the way that people deserve to be treated. And it's absolutely unacceptable. So I'm grateful to you.

[00:08:01]I'm grateful to everyone who listens, who watches. But if you live in a slumlord complex, file those 311 reports so that the city of Houston or Harris County if you're in the outside of the city of Houston can take action without the authorization of that property owner. And we are funding overtime for our health department for those inspections. And we just passed in the city of Houston a new apartment ordinance >> that is really important to know about because it gives us another tool to bring bad actors into into compliance.

[00:08:38]So uh council member Tiffany Thomas, she's an incredible champion. uh she's our chair of housing and then Martha Cassix Tatum, our mayor prom came together, worked with the community, worked with outside organizations and with all of us to pass this apartment inspection ordinance that just passed council a few weeks ago.

[00:08:57]>> That's right.

[00:08:57]>> What if people are saying that 311 doesn't work? Because I know for a fact I've called 311 on apartments because I've got a phone, you know, and I can help people and it doesn't work. What about that? Like Houston Apartment Association doesn't work. Reporting it to these entities has not worked. Is there something new going on where you guys are?

[00:09:13]>> Yeah. So, the apartment inspection ordinance should help with that. Okay. I will say just because a case gets closed out on 311 doesn't mean it's not being acted upon. It means 311 has closed it out and it's with the department. That being said, I hear you on the frustration with 311, right? I report things. I drive around the district reporting stuff all the time. It's important to take that case number, send it to your district council member and your atlarge council members. What happens on council is we actually don't see 311 reports. We don't know. We don't have access to that. So, I need our residents to be sending us those case numbers. That way, we can follow up with the department and say, "Here, here, where are we at with that?"

[00:09:55]>> Well, basically, y'all can just send it to us and then we will give it to them if you, you know, not able to contact them because we can contact them directly. The main thing is is before you reach out to us, and I thank you for letting us know this, contact 311 so we can get that case number because that is what we're going to be asking for in the city of Houston, the 311 case number.

[00:10:15]Once you get that 311 case number, then that's how we can act and advocate on your behalf. And then that'll give their job easy to where we don't have to go through the legal, you know, band-aids and stuff.

[00:10:27]>> And I really want to give a shout out to city employees.

[00:10:29]>> Oh, absolutely. HPD.

[00:10:31]>> I don't think people real These are horrific conditions and this is you have seen them all over the place.

[00:10:37]>> Oh yeah.

[00:10:38]>> Our city employees work so hard day in and day out, but resources are strapped.

[00:10:42]We've lost federal funding. We've lost state funding.

[00:10:45]>> We're constrained financially. That's why I stepped up to fund because we're running out of that overtime for the health department. They are working so hard, but we need your help, too.

[00:10:56]>> Okay.

[00:10:57]>> Thank you for your voice. Yes, ma'am.

[00:10:59]>> Thank you to the residents that have stepped up. I still It's raining now.

[00:11:02]Last time we were here, um not last time we were here. One of the times we were here after one of the fires, um it was freezing. It was raining. We were going door todo um when there was no hot water to give out water, uh insulated blankets, see if we could get folks into shelters. Um I just remember this little girl was out in the rain cold and I had to give her the like the jacket off my back.

[00:11:28]Nobody should be living like that. These parents are doing everything they can.

[00:11:33]This is an area that has been hit by repetitive flooding over and over again.

[00:11:38]>> Um, this neighborhood is resilient. It's an incredible place to live. These kids go to these schools. People often ask, well, shut the whole place down. There's a lot of hard >> nuances to that, but these are families that have roots here. We need to hold the landlords accountable and for them to get the stuff owners accountable to bring quality of life up for residents to a standard that reflects the dignity they deserve.

[00:12:03]>> Mhm. I agree with that.

[00:12:05]>> Well, let's go see what they doing in this front house because >> my camera this part is just malfunctioning. So, I'm going to go grab my phone. Okay.

[00:12:11]>> Okay.

[00:12:12]>> I'm going to give y'all this. I my my son >> You got to go to the next thing. All right.

[00:12:16]>> My son uh it's your last day. You put this on.

[00:12:19]>> I got to go pick him up from school.

[00:12:21]Okay, I got you. All right, Abby, we're good.

[00:12:23]>> Wait, wait, wait, wait. I want it on camera.

[00:12:25]>> Oh, you want it on me? Oh, okay.

[00:12:27]>> Hers her the one she's got on right now is not that good.

[00:12:30]>> Oh, okay. Got it.

[00:12:32]>> Thank you.

[00:12:33]>> Thank you.

[00:12:36]>> We don't want them to run out.

[00:12:39]>> Okay, let John go first.

[00:12:41]>> Let's just go. Let's try.

[00:12:42]>> Okay, but we got to wait for >> Yeah, he going to get his phone >> and then we'll go from there. I told you to go through the back >> cuz they going to lock the front. So, we got to go through the back. Let's get them.

[00:12:53]>> Oh, yeah. Cuz they Oh, yeah. Cuz baby, they going to disappear like roaches, honey.

[00:12:56]>> Disappear.

[00:12:57]>> Oh, okay. We We need to hurry and get over there.

[00:12:59]>> Yeah.

[00:13:00]>> Come on, y'all.

[00:13:00]>> All right, let's go.

[00:13:07]This is the whole city, right?

[00:13:23]I'm going to go live. I'm going I'mma gamble it.

[00:13:26]>> I'm going live.

[00:13:27]>> Go for it.

[00:13:28]>> WHAT'S GOING ON, BIG DOG?

[00:13:30]>> What's up, baby? Good to see you.

[00:13:32]>> Good to see you, too.

[00:13:34]>> Yeah. Oh, we good. Yeah. Yeah. That's TSU, baby.

[00:13:39]>> Yeah. But back.

[00:13:44]>> Oh, I like you.

[00:13:45]>> I know.

[00:14:10]Hello.

[00:14:10]>> Hi. Hello.

[00:14:11]>> We're great. How are you?

[00:14:13]>> Oh, y'all here today?

[00:14:15]>> Yes. Yes.

[00:14:17]>> Oh, good.

[00:14:18]>> Oh, where she going?

[00:14:20]>> I'm not doing that.

[00:14:21]>> She running too.

[00:14:23]>> The old cheap ass shoes. OH, WHERE HE GOING? WITH THAT LITTLE SHIRT YOU GOT ON. COME ON. I TOLD YOU I WAS GOING TO BRING THESE PEOPLE IN HERE NOW. NOW Y'ALL GOT TO PLAY NICE. Y'ALL HERE WANT TO CLOSE DOORS AND STUFF. GET Y'ALL ASSES IN HERE. Y'ALL BETTER GET Y'ALL ASSES IN HERE CUZ Y'ALL GOT THESE PEOPLE LIVING LIKE THAT. OH, WE LOCKING DOORS WITH YOUR SCARY ASSES. YEAH, I TOLD Y'ALL I WAS COMING BACK. Y'ALL GOT MY PEOPLE LIVING LIKE THIS HERE, BABY.

[00:14:46]Y'ALL F TO GET CITATIONS. MATTER OF FACT, SO MANY PER DAY I'M ON Y'ALL ASS.

[00:14:54]YEAH, YOU WITH YOUR LITTLE HAWAII 5O SHIRT ON YOUR WEAK ASS. Y'ALL JUST RUN AROUND HERE ON SCARY TAILS.

[00:15:01]Just scary complaints right now.

[00:15:08]>> Oh, we do.

[00:15:09]>> Yeah. So, how is this going to Well, they always run, don't they? Lord, they always run. That's how you know you're doing dirt. You're doing wrong.

[00:15:28]>> Oh, yeah. Queen be right over there.

[00:15:30]Yeah.

[00:15:33]>> Okay.

[00:15:36]>> They always run >> cuz we have to issue some citations to them.

[00:15:40]>> Oh, we Oh. Oh. Oh, excuse me. He's so citations are going to be issued today.

[00:15:46]Okay. So, under the new ordinance, let me make sure you understand what that means. Is that dependent on the citation, it's going to range between $250 to $2,000 per citation per day. So, how this works is that these owners is going to get slapped with that new ordinance.

[00:16:10]Okay? So you heard the the health department with compliance time. Okay.

[00:16:15]So remember when we was here Friday, nobody was here. Everybody gone. Now they over here running like roaches and stuff. But they always do that.

[00:16:24]>> Just running.

[00:16:30]>> See, they they got their plans working right now, y'all. Their plans is working.

[00:16:33]>> I'm not sure, but I know they're >> Yeah, they are.

[00:16:36]>> They lock the door.

[00:16:37]>> Mhm.

[00:16:40]>> Okay.

[00:16:51]Okay. So, what is happening now? What's the What's the press?

[00:16:57]>> Go get that. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Show our HPD finest, baby. Yes. They brought the nice looking officers out here.

[00:17:08]>> Yeah. Oh, Southwest patrol giving Northeast a run for their money. Huh?

[00:17:15]>> Houston police.

[00:17:17]>> HPD, open up.

[00:17:23]>> Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.

[00:17:25]>> Yeah. You going to open that door for them?

[00:17:28]>> Mhm.

[00:17:29]>> You going to open that door for them though?

[00:17:32]Uh oh. Uh oh. We got We got another HBD.

[00:17:34]>> That is what's going on.

[00:17:35]>> Okay. So they wanted to close doors and everything. You know, they always run when the cameras and we bring the the city people and everything here, right?

[00:17:44]So they seen the the head compliance guy for the health department and everybody started running like people already seen that, right? So now what's going on is that HPD, they got to open it up for them and HPD is letting them know that, hey, they come out here, it's been complaints. They got to do the, you know, their inspections and all this here kind of stuff. So baby, they can't go nowhere and they about to get some citations up the Annie today. So they want to do all this running and stuff. I GIVE THEM RUNNING cuz you got to come out and we came in through the back door >> cuz see cuz see they that's what that's how they was sneaking. They was trying to That's how they snuck on on us last Friday. They was going through the back door back there to try to go to their cars and stuff. Baby, we came through the back door. And let me tell y'all, the head compliance guy for for for the health department, gangster, it's going down. I love my city. I love my city. I love my city.

[00:18:52]>> Oh yeah, baby.

[00:19:02]All right. All right. See, that's the man right there, y'all. H >> Can you mess with that?

[00:19:18]>> They always run.

[00:19:23]We had something for the ass today. Boy, look on a hot Thursday. See, the best time to go run up on somebody is on a Monday or Thursday cuz see Friday be trying to get out quick as you know what I'm saying? And then also I want to let you know uh with the the occupancy deal, they got in touch with the actual owner. The owner is in New York. Okay. So, they was running this place without the occupancy. So they getting fined for that too.

[00:19:53]>> They don't have permits to run it.

[00:19:55]>> Well, they getting the to do the process because he end up talking to him. Oh yes, ma'am. They didn't have none of this stuff. Like none of this stuff. And they just over here operating like, baby, what type of trap house is this, >> man?

[00:20:10]>> Taking your money.

[00:20:11]>> Trap house, y'all.

[00:20:12]>> Yeah. Slum. This is a slum lord trap house. Boy, that's cold.

[00:20:16]>> Trap house.

[00:20:21]Southwest.

[00:20:23]>> Oh, they just got people stuff out in the open for the public.

[00:20:26]>> I think they just maybe just to give them some credit. It looks like they may have took off.

[00:20:29]>> That's a copy.

[00:20:30]>> Yeah, they f the scene though.

[00:20:32]>> Yeah, but you're not safeguarding people's stuff.

[00:20:34]>> Yeah.

[00:20:35]>> Somebody's That's a That's a violation.

[00:20:42]>> I don't even want to touch it, >> boy. She was getting She was getting her ass out there, boy.

[00:20:50]Oh, she saidow.

[00:21:02]>> That's what they said.

[00:21:07]>> 23 bands. Shut the [ __ ] up.

[00:21:11]>> Why?

[00:21:12]>> So, citations will be issued.

[00:21:14]>> Let's go. Let's go. Yes. YES. YES.

[00:21:18]CITATIONS.

[00:21:19]>> THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

[00:21:20]>> For the people.

[00:21:21]>> Yes.

[00:21:24]>> So many so many citations a day. It's pandemonium.

[00:21:29]When that cowboy hat on scene, BOY, YOU IN TROUBLE, >> MAN. It's going down. All right.

[00:21:36]>> They're not being cooperative.

[00:21:39]>> They're not being cooperative.

[00:21:40]>> All right. So, we got six units we're supposed to be going to.

[00:21:42]>> Okay. We ready?

[00:21:44]>> Six units, y'all. Six of them.

[00:21:48]So, we need to go back to a really big problem.

[00:21:53]>> Yes, it is. Mhm.

[00:21:55]>> I can give you a map.

[00:22:03]>> For all the haters, what are you doing?

[00:22:04]That's all my question. That's all I want to know. They're not doing nothing.

[00:22:07]The people saying stupid stuff, what are you doing for the next person? Not a damn thing, but sitting here talking [ __ ] So, sit down somewhere.

[00:22:14]>> Clock it.

[00:22:20]Y'all know who the goats is.

[00:22:23]>> Y'all know who the goat is.

[00:22:25]>> Y'all know I feel like I'm on an episode of cheaters, >> baby. jump.

[00:22:58]We got everybody out here.

[00:23:05]We even saw uh what's her name?

[00:23:07]>> Cayman, former council woman who's now going to be the Paris County attorney.

[00:23:13]attorney.

[00:23:14]>> What's her first name?

[00:23:16]>> Kabby.

[00:23:17]>> Abby. Abby.

[00:23:18]>> Abby Cayman.

[00:23:19]>> Shout out to her. Thank you.

[00:23:24]>> Hey, Abby. Abby off the chain, too.

[00:23:26]>> I like Abby. She's really good.

[00:23:29]We're lucky. We're blessed with somebody.

[00:23:44]Y'all see her? She's little, but she packs a punch.

[00:24:01]They running.

[00:24:02]>> They running.

[00:24:04]>> They don't have cheap chief shoes on.

[00:24:07]>> Yeah. Like I be running too. I'm surprised she AIN'T SLIPPING AND FALL CUZ THIS FLOW is not what's up either.

[00:24:12]>> What was that about Hawaii?

[00:24:15]>> Baby Spuds McKenzie. That's what that looked like. Most Spuds McKenzie shirt he had on. Baby, that shirt was not popping either. And he thought he was tea, too.

[00:24:23]Oh, he thought he was tea. No, you're not, honey. Sorry. You're not that. See, that's one thing I don't like. A gay man that can't dress. I can't stand a ugly gay man and a gay man that can't dress to show us.

[00:24:41]You need to show us a plank. I mean, this place is huge.

[00:24:45]>> Yeah, because it's hard for us to navigate.

[00:24:54]about this to watch the property.

[00:24:59]>> Yeah.

[00:25:00]>> Yeah. What do you want?

[00:25:03]>> What they watching on TV instead of fixing stuff around here. They're watching Cardi B.

[00:25:08]>> They're watching Cardi B on TV.

[00:25:09]>> Priorities, y'all. These folks over here jamming Cardi B. We're outside for real, though. Somebody got the memo outside.

[00:25:17]We're outside. It says, "Am I the drama?" Yes, y'all are >> Am I the drama?

[00:25:25]>> Yeah, they are. They are the drama.

[00:25:27]>> Say hi.

[00:25:29]>> Oh, okay.

[00:25:34]>> We need someone to walk. We have six, seven.

[00:25:38]>> Oh, they're making friends.

[00:25:40]>> We're about to be our frontal walk. We have to walk.

[00:25:53]come with us to come to >> let's go off real quick to >> Oh, let me go get my >> Let's go to the meeting right now.

[00:26:16]>> Wait, I got to get my umbrella, Jason.

[00:26:17]Okay, >> we're going to go visit some apartments, guys.

[00:26:19]>> One second.

[00:26:21]>> Where'd he go? Maria, you have his number real quick.

[00:26:27]>> This is reporting live from the policeing center here at the Jackson Square.

[00:26:34]Mr. Mark, >> oh my gosh, y'all. Mr. Mark, >> it is so bad. It is so bad. The stuff you've seen, the atrocities.

[00:26:42]Unbelievable.

[00:26:45]So, we're about to go to his unit right now.

[00:26:53]>> We're going to go visit uh several apartments so you guys can see the squalor that these folks live in. We got people that came here.

[00:27:02]>> Our park is bad. We have rodents all the time >> and they don't kill.

[00:27:06]>> Okay, let's go check out.

[00:27:07]>> We've been here 30 some years.

[00:27:08]>> Okay.

[00:27:13]about 30 years.

[00:27:16]>> Yeah, me and my mom.

[00:27:18]>> Oh, he from Korea. Say just said something in Korean.

[00:27:30]>> We're going to check out his unit.

[00:27:41]What do they say? Revenge is a best a dish best served cold or something.

[00:27:44]>> Revenge is a dish better served cold.

[00:27:49]You don't got to like me, but you're going to respect me, [ __ ] >> Respect my gangster.

[00:27:56]>> Respect is gangster.

[00:27:59]>> Respect it. Let's break.

[00:28:02]>> Come with it.

[00:28:05]Let's go. Here we go. We ready to go visit some apartments.

[00:28:09]>> Let's go see some apartments, guys.

[00:28:11]>> We're out there. It's for the people.

[00:28:13]>> Yes. Yes. It's a show and everything.

[00:28:15]The way you know the production and everything, but it's for the greater.

[00:28:20]You guys have been cut >> over here. It's been cut.

[00:28:24]>> Yeah. Not Not really cut.

[00:28:26]>> It's been cut.

[00:28:28]>> Look at the side of the street. When I pulled into the side streets, it was up to my knees. The grass is fine. No landscaping. Look at the landscaping, y'all.

[00:28:36]>> It creates a lot of pests when you have >> Yeah.

[00:28:38]>> We were here getting eaten up by mosquitoes. And it was middle of the day.

[00:28:42]>> Yeah. Middle of the day getting eat by mosquitoes.

[00:28:44]>> It's right down here.

[00:28:45]>> Right down here. Okay.

[00:28:48]>> So, we have about seven complaints, but we could go a couple today.

[00:28:51]>> Yeah. We're going to do a few.

[00:28:53]>> Um, >> we got about seven complaints.

[00:28:59]>> But there's so many. Look at the Look at the grass, friends. Wait, wait. Y'all see this?

[00:29:04]>> Look at that >> landscaping. Look at over there.

[00:29:06]>> Yeah, the grass.

[00:29:07]>> Look at all all the weeds. Look at all the weeds. Look at the grass, y'all.

[00:29:10]>> So, yeah, the grass hasn't been cut in months.

[00:29:12]>> Yeah, they haven't cut that grass in months. People pay for that. They have pain.

[00:29:17]>> They don't pay for this.

[00:29:19]>> It gets worse over here.

[00:29:25]>> Look at Look at the grass.

[00:29:27]>> Look at that. It's a whole jungle.

[00:29:30]>> The rats, they have somewhere to go.

[00:29:34]My god, y'all.

[00:29:35]>> Look at the grass.

[00:29:51]>> Level what? A Jumanji.

[00:29:52]>> Jumanji. Level five.

[00:29:54]>> Oh, >> welcome.

[00:29:57]>> Welcome.

[00:29:57]>> What's that song? Welcome to the jungle.

[00:29:59]>> Welcome to the jungle. Oh lord, this is horrible.

[00:30:02]>> Yeah, this is bad. Friends, look, look, let me show y'all what we got. Oh my gosh. Hey y'all. What's up, Jack?

[00:30:10]>> Look at the grass.

[00:30:19]Trees being held up by like puppets.

[00:30:26]This way.

[00:30:55]I want y'all to see all this too.

[00:31:05]So, so all this grass is >> not been cut.

[00:31:08]>> Not been cut. So, >> this is all >> So, this is the grass >> right now. Has not been cut. So, we got to take care of that. We're going to be riding citation for that.

[00:31:21]>> We're not cutting grass.

[00:31:22]>> Coming in this way.

[00:31:22]>> Okay.

[00:31:23]>> Hey, what's up, friend? I see you.

[00:31:28]Hey.

[00:31:38]The gate unlocked.

[00:31:39]>> Yeah, it's unlocked.

[00:31:40]>> That's a security issue right there.

[00:31:41]>> Yeah.

[00:31:44]>> So, we got to check out about this gate.

[00:31:46]>> So, that could be a security issue.

[00:31:49]>> Gate is an issue. Look at this gate.

[00:31:51]>> How can the tenants be safe?

[00:31:53]>> Yeah.

[00:31:55]>> I have a dog, so let me know.

[00:31:57]>> Yeah, I let my mom tell her.

[00:31:59]>> Okay.

[00:32:02]Just do this way.

[00:32:03]>> All right.

[00:32:04]>> Is he mean or is it Is it a good dog?

[00:32:06]>> Okay. Okay. We're fine then.

[00:32:07]>> I just told him.

[00:32:08]>> Yeah. Yeah. We're fine though.

[00:32:09]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:32:10]>> We just don't want to get now.

[00:32:11]>> No. No. No. No. No. It's all good.

[00:32:14]>> I just want them to follow us up.

[00:32:17]>> Yeah. They'll follow us.

[00:32:33]Okay. Wait. Right here.

[00:32:35]>> Yeah. Just run over here.

[00:32:37]>> 157.

[00:32:38]>> 157. Okay.

[00:32:39]>> Reporting live here from the life of Jackson Square Apartments where people are reporting to live in Squaler.

[00:32:47]>> In today's good news, Dr. Matthews and several officials from the city of Houston are here on scene to check out.

[00:33:00]>> Oh, there we go. It's right over here.

[00:33:04]157 >> I saw the basketball.

[00:33:12]>> God, that's crazy.

[00:33:19]>> She can tell you what's going on.

[00:33:21]>> They already know what's going on.

[00:33:24]>> Are y'all with the city?

[00:33:25]>> Yes, >> they are.

[00:33:28]>> All of them. All of them are with the city.

[00:33:30]>> Yeah.

[00:33:31]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:33:31]>> Yes.

[00:33:34]Hey, how you doing?

[00:33:37]>> I don't want the camera.

[00:33:38]>> Okay, >> no problem.

[00:33:40]>> Okay. I don't I don't I'm not that kind of person.

[00:33:43]>> Let me go check out.

[00:33:44]>> Yeah, we need Yeah, but we not going to put you on camera. Okay, let me close my computer.

[00:33:49]>> Yeah, close your computer. Yeah, >> they got rats in here.

[00:33:56]>> We got reports of rats here at Life at Jackson Square Park.

[00:34:00]>> Jackson.

[00:34:01]>> Yeah.

[00:34:03]Yeah, >> I don't know if you guys can hear me and sister bro area. We're back with part two.

[00:34:13]>> Dr. Candace Matthews along with the officials here visit a home where >> right now can you show me real quick?

[00:34:23]>> I I took the whole stuff out and threw it away, but it still was dropping in there in the sink. I mean in the uh drawer right there next to the stove.

[00:34:30]the light on.

[00:34:34]>> So, there's droppings.

[00:34:36]>> It was droppings in that drawer. The top.

[00:34:38]>> It's some I down in the bottom. Yeah.

[00:34:42]>> She cleaned it.

[00:34:43]>> Yeah.

[00:34:44]>> Some droppings right there. So, it must be a hole open.

[00:34:48]>> It is through I think it's through the dishwasher cuz I the pipe busted in the next door. If y'all go next door, y'all would be disgusted.

[00:34:54]>> It's It's horrible. And it's coming. All these are empty. Okay.

[00:35:00]>> I have mold in this bathroom.

[00:35:07]>> Hey, you keep this place really nice, too.

[00:35:10]>> That's unacceptable that there's >> rats.

[00:35:14]Okay.

[00:35:17]>> And where's the mold at? You said in your room.

[00:35:19]>> Okay. Show them what?

[00:35:21]>> Yeah.

[00:35:32]right here.

[00:35:32]>> Yeah.

[00:35:34]>> Yeah. They need to change the sheetrock.

[00:35:37]>> They have like four times. I've been here four years. They keep changing it.

[00:35:40]Just I think it's the way it's built.

[00:35:42]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:35:45]>> Okay.

[00:35:46]>> You keep this place clean, ma'am.

[00:35:48]>> Yes, you do. And it's unacceptable that >> $1,500.

[00:35:58]She's in >> there with how are you?

[00:36:12]>> I'm good. How are you?

[00:36:14]>> Good. Good. Good.

[00:36:15]>> Good to see you again.

[00:36:16]>> Good to see you, too.

[00:36:18]Now, my issue with with her living here, she's too nice. She won't she won't press it, but her window is broken and they refuse to replace.

[00:36:37]>> All the weeds.

[00:36:42]>> Is there a notice to vacate up there?

[00:36:45]>> Yes, sir.

[00:36:45]>> 24-hour not. How do I get up there? I want to see that.

[00:36:53]>> Yeah, we have an alley right there.

[00:37:12]Yeah, they were adicted.

[00:37:34]Oh, trashed there.

[00:37:41]Tripping hazard.

[00:37:55]Wow.

[00:38:04]>> Thank you.

[00:38:06]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:38:13]>> Where's your >> Oh, what' you see?

[00:38:18]>> Um, they got holes in them. They got rat droppings in there. And then, matter of fact, they they actually this apartment is very clean. And then they windows broke. Look, they have uh boarding on the windows. And she paid $1,500 a month for this place.

[00:38:35]1 $1,500.

[00:38:38]$1,500.

[00:38:40]Baby Crunch.

[00:38:42]I bet the hell I would.

[00:38:45]This is horrible. And these people are actively living in here. the bulldog >> actively living here.

[00:38:51]>> We got to do stuff like that. You see?

[00:38:53]>> Oh, come on.

[00:38:55]>> And pay it at the place. Folks are coming.

[00:38:58]>> I have my key. Okay.

[00:39:01]>> Oh, wow.

[00:39:01]>> Yeah.

[00:39:03]>> How long have you lived here, sir?

[00:39:05]>> Six years.

[00:39:05]>> Six years. Has it been like this the whole time?

[00:39:07]>> Nope.

[00:39:09]>> It got progressively worse over the time. Mhm.

[00:39:14]>> When I came the first time, which it was 3 years ago, it was nice. Now the last two years, we're down here.

[00:39:24]Change >> We've seen it. We've seen them.

[00:39:39]Yeah, she showed us those.

[00:39:45]>> Yeah, probably on this side.

[00:39:47]>> We got some close that squat next to the door to me. They come out like, "Hey, neighbor."

[00:39:51]>> I like, "Hey, neighbor."

[00:39:52]>> Yeah.

[00:39:53]>> Hey, neighbor.

[00:39:54]>> I was like, "Wait, >> you ain't no damn neighbor."

[00:39:56]>> I know the people they used to live there. That's not true.

[00:40:00]>> But I I just let them Y'all got it.

[00:40:03]>> Y'all got it. I'm just going home.

[00:40:10]So this this trash pickup service that they supposedly have >> that I never seen.

[00:40:15]>> That I never seen.

[00:40:16]>> Never seen it.

[00:40:16]>> Never seen. Okay.

[00:40:18]>> Like the first year we seen it.

[00:40:21]>> What How long has it been since the one guy got killed over there by the park?

[00:40:25]About two years ago.

[00:40:26]>> Uh about two years ago.

[00:40:27]>> Yeah. About two years ago. And I ain't seen him. It's very seldom >> and I haven't seen him but this month this month this month. Then they had the audacity to say that we had started the fire at our apartment, but we didn't.

[00:40:40]The club did.

[00:40:42]>> It wasn't even the club. It was people that went in there and squad trying to stay warm.

[00:40:46]>> Then the fire then the fire department said, "Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't reach out to us, get the three, give us the 311 number." Once they give us the 311 number, then when I turn around and send that advance email out, >> you know what I'm saying? I got all the orders. So, y'all got all the number.

[00:41:09]>> Uh, the life of Jackson Square, we're on the back side. Um, we going to go see some more real bad. A grievous apartment. Okay. We go up these stairs.

[00:41:20]Yeah. These are the ones right here.

[00:41:22]Yeah, we go up those stairs.

[00:41:26]>> It's No, it's around on the other side of the stairs. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, this one is >> There it is.

[00:41:49]>> There it is.

[00:41:54]>> Here we go.

[00:41:59]>> Oh, it's worse. There's a wig.

[00:42:02]>> Oh, it works.

[00:42:05]>> There's a wig.

[00:42:08]>> Someone dropped their weave.

[00:42:11]>> Somebody dropped their hair weave.

[00:42:13]>> Wow.

[00:42:16]>> What? You This is 492.

[00:42:18]>> Oh, wow.

[00:42:19]>> Wow.

[00:42:21]>> That is >> All right, folks. Back with part three.

[00:42:26]Life of Jackson Square Park.

[00:42:28]>> Oh, yeah. We need to board this up.

[00:42:31]>> We need to clean it out and board it up.

[00:42:32]>> Are they Are they squatters that live here or they just throw all the trash right in here?

[00:42:36]>> Oh my god.

[00:42:39]>> Squatters. Be careful.

[00:42:40]>> Smell so bad.

[00:42:41]>> It could be bed bugs. All that.

[00:42:43]>> So be careful.

[00:42:44]>> There might be a dead body in there, man. I know the smell. And that's not good.

[00:42:48]>> Oh my god, y'all.

[00:42:49]>> Is that a vacant unit?

[00:42:52]>> It's open. Yeah.

[00:42:53]>> No, it's open.

[00:42:55]>> That's That's feces on that thing. Yeah.

[00:42:58]>> Oh my god.

[00:42:59]>> This is What building is this?

[00:43:01]>> It was closed. Look at that. The the the uh >> building 18 492. Okay.

[00:43:07]>> Oh my god.

[00:43:09]>> Next to where kids play.

[00:43:11]>> And there are children here. Y'all look.

[00:43:13]>> Look at all that trash, too. There's more trash. Shopping cart.

[00:43:20]>> Maintenance also. They need playground.

[00:43:32]>> There's a kids playground across the street.

[00:43:34]>> Oh my god, there's a bunch of flies.

[00:43:37]They might need to make a welfare check in here. Hello.

[00:43:41]>> If there's flies in there, maybe a dead body.

[00:43:43]>> Yeah, there's flies in here, y'all. They need to check and make sure everybody need >> There's more over here.

[00:43:49]>> Oh my god.

[00:43:50]>> This one.

[00:43:51]>> Okay.

[00:44:03]There's been reports of waters and all kinds.

[00:44:06]>> Yeah, this this is for 98. They need to bore these. If those live here, >> they can too. They have to bore these um units.

[00:44:16]>> So, is this a each one of these a citation? Well, I mean, yeah, because you're creating >> waste, pest, you know, so that creates it and could affect the whole other units. So, definitely this is so 498.

[00:44:32]Okay.

[00:44:36]>> So, yeah. Okay. All right. So, I got to talk to him about that.

[00:44:40]>> Okay. Where else we going?

[00:44:43]>> There's another vacant unit over on the other building.

[00:44:46]>> We want to go to that one.

[00:44:49]I mean, it's just up to you. I know you seen enough.

[00:44:52]>> Yeah, I see. I see enough. So, I got to go back to I know.

[00:44:56]Yeah. My investigators have to go back and >> Okay.

[00:45:02]>> What's with your apartment?

[00:45:03]>> So, mine I got a fire back in December.

[00:45:06]They hadn't fixed it. They hadn't moved me, anything. It's still the same way that it was when we had the fire.

[00:45:12]>> Oh. So, where's your unit located?

[00:45:14]>> Right over here. So, is it really bad inside?

[00:45:18]>> It's got more smoke damage.

[00:45:19]>> Smoke damage. Okay. Okay.

[00:45:21]>> You might want to get a look at it.

[00:45:22]>> I Yeah, let's check that one out.

[00:45:25]>> Okay.

[00:45:26]>> Come on, y'all. We going to another one.

[00:45:29]>> It's a microwave.

[00:45:31]>> It's a cat. It's a cat. Oh, look at the kitty, y'all. We can't leave them in the cupboard.

[00:45:36]>> I'm leaving.

[00:45:38]>> Oh my god.

[00:45:42]>> You don't know that. I'm >> I'm afraid of the cat.

[00:45:47]>> Hey kitty kitty cat.

[00:45:48]>> Hi kitty.

[00:45:49]>> Oh my god, y'all. We got to save it. Oh my god.

[00:45:54]>> Look at all that. They stole it from smoke shop.

[00:45:56]>> I can't scream, but I do apologize.

[00:46:00]Okay, so I'm going to need to work.

[00:46:03]>> It's a live cat in there.

[00:46:05]>> Yeah, that's their new home. That's what I'm saying. You leave these doors open, anything can come in there.

[00:46:09]>> Wow.

[00:46:12]Looks like they robbed a smoke shop and went in there and smoked it all up, too.

[00:46:15]>> Wow.

[00:46:17]>> A weave.

[00:46:22]>> That's new piece right there.

[00:46:28]>> So, I'm assuming they're not paying this valet living bill cuz I've seen them in other apartment.

[00:46:32]>> No, they ain't charging us for it.

[00:46:36]>> They're charging y'all for it and not paying it.

[00:46:37]>> They're not. They're not. They're not not coming with the trash either.

[00:46:41]That's why all that trash in there like that.

[00:46:46]>> I got a deal for trash.

[00:46:48]>> How you doing, man?

[00:46:50]>> You been You been scoping?

[00:46:52]>> I'm just taking along.

[00:46:54]>> Okay.

[00:46:55]>> All right. We're going to check her unit real quick and see what's going on. So, new unit's up here.

[00:47:03]>> Yes, sir.

[00:47:03]>> Okay.

[00:47:04]>> Mind if we come in?

[00:47:06]>> All right.

[00:47:06]>> Jessica, we're going to go to reunite right now. We're going to go turn it real quick. Check out >> now. Again, I >> You're good.

[00:47:23]You >> when my house caught a fire back in DC.

[00:47:29]>> Oh, wow.

[00:47:31]>> Look at all that.

[00:47:38]Did they move you out?

[00:47:39]>> No, I'm had I recently just moved my stuff out yesterday.

[00:47:44]>> But so you were staying here >> since December.

[00:47:47]>> You've been staying here since December.

[00:47:48]>> December.

[00:47:49]>> When I hit the fire.

[00:47:50]>> Wow.

[00:47:51]>> Yeah.

[00:47:52]>> So like >> Did you save the cat, Rosie?

[00:47:56]>> Huh?

[00:47:56]>> You have a cat?

[00:47:57]>> Is it?

[00:47:58]>> Is this bacon?

[00:47:59]>> No, this is her unit.

[00:48:01]>> She lives in >> She lives here.

[00:48:03]>> Yes, I live here.

[00:48:04]>> She lives in here?

[00:48:05]>> Yes. The fire happened back in December 2025.

[00:48:08]>> So, this is your unit that you live here?

[00:48:10]>> Yes.

[00:48:11]>> Wow.

[00:48:11]>> Yes. And I've been in here since 2025.

[00:48:13]>> Did you What did management say? Did you contact 31?

[00:48:16]>> I did not I did not know of all that.

[00:48:19]And I just found out a good information today.

[00:48:21]>> Okay. Yes. Because this is unacceptable.

[00:48:24]>> Yes.

[00:48:24]>> Unsafe living conditions. Even breathing horrible.

[00:48:27]>> Yes. It's mold. It's mold.

[00:48:29]>> And you've been living here since December when the fire happened. And you kept living here?

[00:48:33]>> Yes.

[00:48:33]>> Wow. Okay.

[00:48:34]>> Wow. I kept living here because they gave me a lot of issues. They're talking about where you can't move out if you move out.

[00:48:41]>> So, you saying move out when there's a fire?

[00:48:43]>> Yes. They said I said, "Well, can y'all move me? I'm still waiting."

[00:48:47]>> No, that's No. No.

[00:48:49]>> I told him I asked him about 3 months ago, maybe three, six months ago. I asked him. I said, "Um, >> are you still paying? You were still >> paying rent?" Yes.

[00:48:56]>> And living in this type of condition.

[00:48:58]>> And how much you pay?

[00:48:59]>> I paid $1,200. She pays $1,200 to live in squalor. Look at this mess, you guys.

[00:49:05]Look at the ceilings. This apartment caught fire. This should be a hazard.

[00:49:09]And this woman is living in these conditions.

[00:49:13]>> She lives here right now. She's just told us she lives here.

[00:49:16]>> So, you just moved all your stuff out yesterday?

[00:49:18]>> Mhm.

[00:49:19]>> Oh my god.

[00:49:22]>> She moved most of her things yesterday.

[00:49:24]>> How recent was the fire now?

[00:49:26]>> December of 2025.

[00:49:27]>> Okay.

[00:49:27]>> So, since December you were living here, they just moved all your stuff out yesterday.

[00:49:30]>> Can you believe this?

[00:49:32]>> Wow. My god, this poor lady, y'all.

[00:49:35]>> I can't believe you live in this type of condition since December.

[00:49:39]>> I just I couldn't even breathe.

[00:49:40]>> I can't even breathe up in here, man.

[00:49:44]>> Oh my god. This poor baby.

[00:49:46]>> Lord, please.

[00:49:48]>> But are you guys still living inside?

[00:49:51]>> You guys are still living. You guys are still >> I'm still here until the end of this month.

[00:49:55]>> Okay, let me talk. Yeah.

[00:49:57]>> The end of May.

[00:49:58]>> Yes.

[00:49:58]>> Okay.

[00:49:59]>> Yes, I'm still here.

[00:50:01]>> Wow. So, they still have They haven't took me out. They haven't >> did anything for me.

[00:50:06]>> It looks like Is that >> That's an active fire.

[00:50:08]>> That was a fire. Uh Yeah.

[00:50:10]>> Oh, no. I'm sorry.

[00:50:11]>> Yeah.

[00:50:12]>> It's a problem.

[00:50:15]>> Oh god.

[00:50:16]>> Wow.

[00:50:16]>> We got We got bigger problems than active fire.

[00:50:19]>> This is This is crazy.

[00:50:26]>> I mean, Candace, Dr. Matthew speak on like can she sue for something like this?

[00:50:34]>> Um I'm not a lawyer but I advise her to get legal counsel to see what her legal remedies are because I can't give legal advice because you know they be trying to get me if I say some stuff but I think she needs to get an attorney to see what type of uh legal remedies that she may possibly have cuz this ain't right.

[00:50:52]>> All right. I'm going to go back to management office and then deal with the u the owners and stuff ownership. So I'm going to deal with >> Yeah. We just going to get a little footage of