When new property managers took over the Harvard Court Apartments in Independence, many residents were forced to find a new home

“They put everyone out,” one former resident said of Iron Door Management. The resident asked not to be named in fear of retaliation during an ongoing negotiation.

“They told us all they would abide by the leases, but then they told us ‘No, we’re just going to give you all 90 days to get off our property.’”

The Harvard Court Apartments are among Kansas City’s top “eviction hot spots” according to Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, which gathers and analyzes eviction data across the country.

While thousands of evictions are filed against Jackson County tenants each year, with an average of more than 150 filings per week, a large number of those filings come from a small number of buildings scattered throughout the county.

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