Langley Park condo residents face evictions after vandalism, heating failures, dispute over encampment

About 100 families at Marylander Condominiums in Langley Park were ordered out after a Thanksgiving-week heat outage left several buildings uninhabitable, turning a neighborhood fight into a housing emergency for condo owners and renters of modest means.

The 200-unit, 19-building complex lost heat in roughly half its apartments beginning the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2025, according to earlier reports. Residents later faced a harsher blow when several buildings were deemed unsafe to live in, forcing evacuations and raising fears of eviction, unpaid repairs and long-term displacement.

Quasar Property Management and the condo association blamed vandalism to the boiler system and said high-pressure blowouts damaged nine of the complex’s 19 buildings. Quasar CEO Kenneth Brown said a full modernization, including new electrical systems and individual HVAC units, would cost about $8 million. The company also pointed to a nearby homeless encampment and an open-air drug market as part of the damage behind the outage.

Prince George’s County Council member Wanika Fisher said county crews had cleared the encampment area multiple times, but people returned. She also said her office was working to find emergency housing and rental assistance for residents suddenly forced out of their homes. County officials rejected the management company’s account, and at a Feb. 28 town hall, a county spokesman said the encampment had nothing to do with the heat failures.

The dispute escalated into federal court on March 7, 2026, when condo owners filed suit against Prince George’s County. The lawsuit accused the county of deliberate indifference and of creating a state-created danger, and it sought $25 million in damages, along with injunctive relief and a jury trial.

The case now sits at the intersection of neighborhood safety, sanitation and housing protection in one of the county’s most densely populated communities. County homeless-services materials say the Street Outreach Program meets unsheltered people in encampments, public spaces and other community locations and connects them to shelter, transportation, wellness checks and behavioral-health services. At the same time, the broader Washington area counted 9,659 people experiencing homelessness on one day in January 2025, showing how the pressures in Langley Park are tied to a much larger regional crisis.