Medical students say their apartment near Johns Hopkins has not had hot water for weeks

Residents and Johns Hopkins University medical students living in an East Baltimore apartment building said they have spent the past month without hot water.

Between exams and medical school interviews, the stress pushed some neighbors to take matters into their own hands.

Tenants living at The Essential apartment complex, located along Wolfe Street, have filed at least two court cases within the last month, while city inspectors have issued five violation notices related to the hot water failure.

"There was no cold water getting to my room"

Sarah Kozosey, a new graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, said emails were sent stating that the hot water issue was being fixed.

But, she said, her water is still "ice cold."

"I had to take showers in another unit on the upper floors be