LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nearly two months after one building at Woodside Village Apartments in Louisville turned off its gas due to a leak, some residents said it still isn’t back on. 

What You Need To Know

  • Some residents at the Woodside Village Apartments still don't have gas nearly two months after a leak

  • Resident Taricka Franklin said she doesn't have hot water and can't cook

  • Franklin and her three children have been showering by microwaving water

  • She added the property managers offered to move her to a new unit or to use another unit for showering and cooking

“Every night, we have to take cold baths,” said Taricka Franklin, resident of the Woodside Village Apartments. “We’re freezing to death. There’s no heat; I can’t cook anything whatsoever.” 

Franklin has been a resident for about 18 months with her three young children and said the last two months have been challenging. She said she got a letter from the property managers, RPM Living, about the situation.

“Woodside would like to offer you to transfer to another unit until these issues are completed … ” the letter said, in part.

“I’m a single mother, and I have three small children,” Franklin said. “I don’t have family or people I can just go to and take showers. It’s tough.”

“I have to go through this every day.” 

Franklin said a manager later offered her a key to another apartment to use for showers and cooking, but she said she declined that offer. She is microwaving cups of water so her 12-month-old, 7-year-old and 10-year-old can shower. 

“At night, when they’re getting ready to take baths, they scream because they know it’s cold, and I feel like I’m torturing them,” she said.

On top of that, Franklin said money is tight and rent was raised by over $100 for her unit just before the gas leaked happened. 

“It’s like they don’t care ... I feel like if I don’t speak up now, this situation is going to be ongoing, and there’s no telling when it’ll be fixed,” she said. “It’s just to the point something has to be done.” 

Woodside Village Apartments are subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The property manager, RPM Living, is one of the largest property management firms in the country.  

Spectrum News 1 has reached out to RPM Living and Louisville Gas & Electric about the situation and has not yet received a response.