The few residents who remain at the Huntington Meadows apartment complex in Bond Hill can stay at least another 14 days, a Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas judge ruled Tuesday.

        Judge Thomas Crush signed a temporary restraining order that bars Habitat America — the court-appointed receiver running the property — from evicting residents or shutting off utilities.

        Kenneth L. Lawson, the lawyer representing tenants at the complex, argued that Judge Crush's previous order to close the property as part of a foreclosure proceeding didn't trump the Ohio Landlord-Tenant Act, which requires the landlord to give notice and allow a court hearing before an eviction.

        “Some of the tenants were actually in tears to know they didn't have to go today, because they really don't have anywhere to go,” Mr. Lawson said. “A lot of the tenants were believing what Habitat America was telling them, that the sheriff would just come and throw them out.”

        The complex is owned by a partnership controlled by the Michigan-based P.M. Group, which received almost $4 million in city subsidies to redevelop the complex in 1997

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