Low-income Katrina victims face eviction!!!

[AGENDA21]

GULFPORT, Miss. - When the Watersmark apartment complex advertised its “grand reopening” five months after Hurricane Katrina, the announcement stunned tenants living there in storm-damaged apartments.

Weeks earlier, they say, they were told by the management that they had to get out because the building was uninhabitable.

With the grand reopening, it suddenly became clear “they wanted me out of here so they can remodel the apartment and raise the rent,” said Cassandra Plummer, who staved off eviction after her lawyer protested. “The price is going to be way more than we can afford.”

Lawyers for low-income tenants say they have been fighting a wave of evictions since the Aug. 29 hurricane laid waste to tens of thousands of houses and apartments on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Accusations of housing-related price gouging also abound in Louisiana.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375321/

[fooj]

1. Compassionate conservatism at its finest.

:mad:

[shamrock]

6. In all fairness

Unless the property owners are getting some kind of compensation from the government they usually can't afford to let people live there for free or with greatly reduced rent (if that's the case). The owner has expenses as well, and taxes to pay, and they depend on the income from the rentals.

[WI_DEM]

2. The Free Enterprise System trying to cash in yet again

[Kagemusha]

3. Uninhabitable because Katrina victims lived in it, no doubt

So there.

[merh]

4. Oh, but we need to spend those federal funds on getting

new land for the R&R - the people don't matter, they can make do or get the fuck out. :sarcasm:

:grrr: Those who laugh at this don't realize, if it can happen here, where repukes rule, it can happen anywhere.


:cry:

[Ian David]

5. At least we're protecting them from gay marriage and steroids in baseball

And if they renounce their citizenship, they can be eligible for employment as "Guest Workers" below minimum wage.

[Xenotime]

7. This is happening everywhere...

These greedy landlords are putting people on the street.