HOUSTON — On first approach, The Life at Jackson Square appears to reflect its buoyant name.
Two-story brick buildings wrap around neat courtyards, water fountains and swimming pools at the sprawling, garden-style apartment complex. It offers the opportunity to live in “prestigious Bellaire,” its website says, where families can send their children to highly regarded schools attended by well-to-do neighbors.
But upon closer inspection, cracks emerge in the facade.
Tucked under silver door knockers are notices demanding residents vacate their apartments. Eviction records hang from metal door clips. Here and there, piles of clothing, pots and pans, mattresses and boxes of diapers line the hallways — traces of families who seemed to vanish, leaving behind what they could not carry.
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