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Originally Posted by verybadgnome
There was one complex called Lakeview apartments at the tail end of its life that was demo'd. I visited friends there and it was nasty as well as being a poor utilization of the property. It may have been the very last cheap apartment complex next to the lake in Central Austin.
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That complex was my first real home (in the sense that I wasn't couch surfing at someone else's place) when I moved to Austin in the '80s. I lived there for ~3 years, and it was on the front end of a downward spiral way back then. It was mostly U.T. and Texas School of the Deaf students in my building. Calling APD or answering questions by APD officers called to the complex was somewhat common.
Female school of the deaf students were getting stalked and harassed, and APD asked us to help them contact APD by making our apartment a place they could go to when they were threatened. U.T. students were kicking/smashing holes in the sheet rock and breaking light fixtures on weekends in the hallways, and the apartment management asked us to keep an eye out for the perps. It was like living in a micro neighborhood watch zone.