On May 24th, the Pioneer Press reported on “When tenants pay but owners don’t.”
Calls about such evictions to the tenant advocacy group HOME Line multiplied tenfold between 2006 and 2008. Real estate agents say landlord foreclosures have at least doubled in two years. HOME Line attorney Matt Eichenlaub once assumed that new property owners would want an unbroken series of payments from renters. “A lot of people win when a tenant stays in a house,” he said. “You get a house sitter and a monthly payment. There is no boarded-up abandoned building. But banks see things differently.
Today, the Minnesota Daily gave a sense of the different types of communities that contributed to the Tenant Bill of Rights success in “Tenants protected under Minn. law.”
Peggy Larkin is a court clerk living in low-income housing in Maple Grove, Minn. Brian Peterson is a recenteconomics and urban studies graduate of the University of Minnesota. Despite their different backgrounds, both Larkin and Peterson played roles in the passage of what Peterson calls “landmark legislation.”
And lastly, I, Michael Dahl, make a fool of myself to help support HOME Line. Check out the obviously home-produced video.
