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Downtown families with nowhere to move say their children will be put on Fresno streets. Fresno officials move to head off evictions. Tenants say they have nowhere to go
The government’s ultimatum divided the community. The leader of Chapman’s organization said it was the best offer the evicted people were going to get. He said he was satisfied with the deal. Many residents and their advocates — including Chapman — objected. But they had nowhere to turn for help.
Under state law, landlords can evict tenants if they are planning a "substantial remodel" of a unit. Long Beach housing advocate Maria Lopez saw it as a loophole in tenant protection law.
Each year, 2.9 million children under 18 are threatened with eviction, while 1.5 million are evicted — representing 2 in 5 of the entire population that face eviction each year.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 nonfiction book by American sociologist Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords , many of whom face eviction .
A legal eviction will nearly always go on an evictee's permanent record, barring them from future housing opportunities. [69] When an eviction is filed in the court system, this record becomes available to landlords. Landlords can look up the records of prospective renters through a tenant screening report. [1]
The courts have allowed the eviction to go ahead on the basis that the foreclosure was in 2018, prior to the pandemic. [2] Protestors have argued that an eviction during a pandemic is cruel nonetheless. [2] The Kinneys began staying in hotels and with friends, and eventually in a North Portland home owned by the elder Kinneys since 1966. [20] [26]
That emboldened Kenyan authorities to go forward with a removal campaign that grew increasingly aggressive during the World Bank’s sponsorship of the KFS, he said. Tens of thousands of Sengwer still live in the Cherangani Hills. KFS rangers have maintained the campaign of evictions through 2014 and into 2015, according to Sengwer leaders.