Ball, she said, stayed with a woman and several children at the Redd Street unit.

“It’s the tenants out here that need to step up. It’s not that they don’t know these people that they’re dealing with. You let outsiders come into your community and take over your unit,” she said. “A lot of them are aware of the guys that they’re dealing with, the trouble that they are in and the trouble that they’re bringing, and they allow them to come into the unit.”

Williford said there is a book in Mosby Court’s management office that includes the names of everyone banned from RRHA property, “from A to Z.”

“That guy, I didn’t know him,” she said of Ball. “I had seen him several times, but I didn’t know he was banned from the property.”

Of course, that’s part of the problem, since someone won’t check the list unless a dispute or complaint emerges. It also requires getting a name, Williford noted.

The RRHA relies on the Richmond Police Department to enforce the barment list, Somanath said, though the housing authority does take action on its own.