Houston tax deal gives condemned apartments a new lease on life Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 08:44 p.m., Sunday, May 20, 2012 Five years ago, as the Carter's Grove Apartments, they were the first complex closed by city officials in what then-Mayor Bill White described as a crackdown on "slum landlords." The city revoked the occupancy certificate after inspectors cited the apartments more than 190 times and after two children had been hospitalized with burns from being shocked by an unsecured electrical transformer.