According to a Harvard University study that looked at local eviction records, the influx of federal stimulus money to help stem homelessness coincided with 836 fewer evictions filed in Milwaukee County from August 2009 to March 2010, compared with the same period the previous year.
via JSOnline.
Walking through the vacated apartment this week — her first look inside the rental in more than a year — Cook saw the holes in walls, the ruined carpet, the accumulated bathroom filth and then reflected on the landlord-tenant battle she calls the worst experience of her life.
“It’s amazing she could live like this,” said Cook, who fluctuated between disgust and tears during a tour of the apartment Wednesday morning.
via PressDemocrat.com.
“Unfortunately when knocking on somebody’s door, that’s always a dangerous proposition,” he said. “But I’ve had several instances where I’ve been threatened with a gun, threatened with a pipe, with knives, with machetes. Sometimes people do desperate things to keep what they believe to be their home, and it is their home, but a lot of times, unfortunately, they take it to the next level.”
via CityLimits.org.
According to neighbors, the property was originally purchased by a developer, who took down the previous house and built the six bedroom, nine bath home. The developer reportedly lost the home to the bank late last year. The house has been on the market for two months,
via PNWLocalNews.
Dawn and Charlie Price have been told by their apartments management company that they must take down an American flag they have hanging in the dining room window of their west-side apartment by Saturday or face eviction.
via Oshkosh Northwestern.
The down economy has meant brisk business for Landlord Solutions, a Tacoma-based company that specializes in eviction services.
via The News Tribune.
n contrast, foreclosures are up for the fourth consecutive year, and appeals have skyrocketed, but the number of evictions and replevins have both dropped.
