U.S. agency is assisting complex’s residents

HOT SPRINGS -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is helping Greenbriar Apartments tenants relocate after it stopped paying rent subsidies at the Convention Boulevard complex, a HUD spokesperson said.

A news release an agency official provided at an April tenant relocation meeting at the Housing Authority of Hot Springs' Illinois Street offices said, "HUD is taking possession of this property due to management and unresolved substandard issues."

A HUD spokesperson clarified that the agency is not in possession of the 64-unit property. But housing assistance payments HUD provided to Greenbriar Holdings Partnership, the group that acquired the property in 2022, ceased at the end of March.

"HUD does not own the property but is providing relocation services and tenant protection vouchers," the spokesperson said in an email. "The relocation services are being managed by Leumas, HUD's third-party contractor, under the direction of HUD's Multifamily Property Disposition Office."

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Center for Arkansas Legal Services attorneys representing past and present Greenbriar tenants in the lawsuit they filed last summer told the court that HUD didn't authorize the air-conditioning fees. It's one of several issues of fact that are yet to be resolved, they argued earlier this month.