After years of sustained complaints, some residents at Phoenix Towers in Bloomington are hoping to take matters into their own hands.

A handful of tenants living in the downtown apartment building are attempting to form a tenants union or residents council, though their legal rights in doing so appear more limited than that of their peers in other public housing developments.

<a href="https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2023-03-09/bed-bugs-mold-mistreatment-insiders-describe-troubling-conditions-at-phoenix-towers" data-cms-ai="0">After years of sustained complaints</a>, some residents at Phoenix Towers in Bloomington are hoping to take matters into their own hands.
A handful of tenants living in the downtown apartment building are attempting to form a tenants union or residents council, though their legal rights in doing so appear more limited than that of their peers in other public housing developments.

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