It's moving day for dozens of residents at the Stanley Homes Village in Atlantic City.

But tenants at the aging housing complex aren't going willingly.

They were given notice four days ago that they'd need to temporarily relocate to a nearby hotel while the local housing authority makes repairs that have been languishing at the apartments in some cases for several months.

As Ted Goldberg reports, advocates are calling this a Band-Aid fix for a much larger problem.

We had.

A moment of crisis where everybody can say we have to do.

Better.

Residents of Stanley Holmes village are finally getting a major repair.

But it's led to 20 people being forced to live at the Claridge Hotel for about a month.

Two buildings have been evacuated.

So the Atlantic City Housing Authority or ACHA can patch up leaks in sewage pipes.

People received these fliers last Thursday, giving them four days notice to pack their stuff.

That's the goal, to make it as least dramatic as possible.

No one wants to move from the units.

But these repairs are necessary.

People have to be out of the units.

So the goal is to make it as bearable as possible.

City Councilman Kaleem Shabazz says the ACHA is providing three meals a day for the affected residents, since the fliers mention that anyone staying here can't cook in their rooms or use a microwave.

People who moved to this hotel had plenty of other questions that weren't initially answered.

Where are they going to park their cars?

What about my rent?

How I'm gonna get back and forth to transportation?

Those are key things that they really wasn't looking at.

Steven Young leads the South Jersey chapter of the National Action Network.

He said residents got some answers during a meeting last night.

But there are deeper issues affecting Stanley Homes, the oldest public housing complex in New Jersey.

The overall problem at issue still can continue to exist.

If you don't get to the root of the problem, if all those finance has been coming here all these years, it's about maintaining the property.

These properties have not been maintained properly for years and that is neglect and it's caused a human rights violation.

No heat, no hot water.

People who live at Stanley Homes have told us about the inconsistent hot water in their homes and heating that sometimes fails during cold weather.

We can't wait no longer.

We can't continue to wait.

This is gone too far.

Young says it took a lawsuit and large scale attention for the ACHA to start making fixes.

And residents are organizing a bus to Washington, D.C. to bring more attention to their concerns.

It took the residents continue going to the meetings to speak up press conferences.

We have gotten in touch with the secretary of hut and we have not got an answer from her.

We have gotten in touch with Congressman Van Drew, who sent her a letter.

Senator Menendez sent her a letter.

And we've got in touch with Senator Booker's office and no response.

We reached out to the ACHA for the story and didn't hear back.

Councilman Shabazz has criticized them in the past, but he says they've done a good job working with the Claridge Hotel to give these folks a place to stay.

Stanley has a long standing problem, a historical problem, deep structural disadvantages.

Long term, Stanley has to change because it is almost impossible to bring Stanley up to a condition that people will be satisfied with and will provide a humane standard of living.

So we're doing patchwork.

So I'm optimistic that with partnerships and cooperation, it can get better.

According to that letter, the ACHA will start repairs tomorrow and will give tenants an update and timeline on March 1st.

They could move back in on the 11th, but that's a tentative date and could easily change.

In Atlantic City.

I'm Ted Goldberg.

NJ Spotlight News.