Legal services to stop evictions and lower evictions by landlords.
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What's worse is that those numbers are just judge-ordered evictions, most evictions seem to be informal evictions where landlords either lockout tenants or pay them to move out.
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The evictions sometimes turned violent: The wildlife authority has acknowledged that one man was shot dead by a stray bullet during evictions in 2012.
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Officials said the evictions were legal, as the land belonged to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which denies residents accusations the evictions were for the President's visit.
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Protesters marched behind a heavyset blue and yellow truck kitted out by Stop Evictions Berlin for demonstration, carrying signs declaring ZORN (anger) and STOP ZQANGSRÄUMUNGEN (stop evictions).
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This 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner examines evictions in Milwaukee, focusing on a cast of landlords and renters, with an eye on how evictions impact American society as a whole.
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Evictions are among the top pipelines to homelessness, so reducing evictions means reducing homelessness and the financial pressure on governmental systems that, in the end, wind up housing the evicted.
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"Enact nationwide rent control protections" In 2016 alone, around 2.3 million people are evicted each year-—that's 36 evictions for every opioid overdose that year or 2 evictions for every car accident.
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The Housing Authority counted evictions and unpaid debt as strikes when reviewing applications, and landlords turned away applicants with recent evictions, which were displayed free of charge on a government Web site.
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The number of forced evictions has reached 224,217 a year.
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Is this enough to make up for the mass evictions?
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Aside from the evictions there have been issues with bedbugs.
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ELS said evictions are a last resort and generate losses.
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This quickly morphed into mass evictions, starting in the shantytown.
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And so, many of these evictions are processed through default.
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These include maintenance, taxes, insurance and attorneys' fees for evictions.
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READ: Tenants and landlords are terrified Coronavirus will mean evictions.
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Some of those evictions were captured on television news programs.
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San Francisco has also ceased evictions and issuing parking tickets.
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She visited neighborhoods while the evictions were ongoing, Chapman said.
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They are also blasting the government's handling of the evictions.
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Officials in Tikrit cited extraordinary security concerns for the evictions.
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The tractor represents the forced evictions, demolitions, and stadium construction.
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When they do show, the courts get overloaded and evictions slow.
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Meanwhile, evictions of slums in cities have left thousands more homeless.
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On WeChat, legal scholars doubted the legality of the migrant evictions.
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These went ahead, but not without delays, ugly evictions and compensation.
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Suicides attributed to evictions and foreclosures doubled between 2005 and 2010.
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Some of their walls are painted with slogans protesting the evictions.
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"6,000 evictions [take place] every year in the Bronx," she said.
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Before the evictions some eight million migrants lived in metropolitan Beijing.
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Do they want to run against rent freezes and stopping evictions?
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Evictions are terrible for families, landlords, government and society at large.
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Many say the evictions are illegal, with authorities paying inadequate compensation.
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It went without protest but past evictions have sometimes resulted in violence.
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Clashes have broken out over evictions to make way for Olympic projects.
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But measures such as these can only slow the pace of evictions.
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Data show that evictions skyrocketed after the private equity firm took over.
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The New York-based Human Rights said she was caught filming evictions.
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Prohibit foreclosures and evictions and temporarily cover car and credit card loans.
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Multiple cities across the country are suspending evictions during the coronavirus crisis.
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In nearby Austin, evictions are on hold until at least April 1.
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Dozens of states and localities have suspended evictions and utility shut-offs.
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The mayor also announced a moratorium on evictions in public housing complexes.
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Not surprisingly, so did evictions — although his company also renovated the properties.
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Citing the evictions, the World Bank temporarily suspended new lending to Cambodia.
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Often, there's little that residents or their families can do about evictions.
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Ms. Colau entered politics after working as an activist fighting housing evictions.
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Many complain the evictions are illegal and authorities fail to pay adequate compensation.
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Residents have opposed the sudden nature of the evictions, and lack of compensation.
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Videos on Chinese social media show ruthless evictions taking place across the city.
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Evictions decreased by 823 percent last year, to 21,988 from 26,857 in 2014.
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Israeli authorities have carried out similar evictions in the past under court order.
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But decades of forced evictions seem to have taught both sides some lessons.
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Tenants would be better protected during the eviction process, particularly against retaliatory evictions.
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Orlando and Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Seattle, Washington, paused evictions as well.
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He also announced that his housing department would temporarily suspend evictions and foreclosures.
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Mick typically handled low-level drug cases, burglaries, custody suits, divorces, and evictions.
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She'd filed for bankruptcy, owed the IRS about $45,000 and had faced multiple evictions.
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Evictions brought on by rising rents have helped reshape the demographics of Northern California.
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This is particularly relevant as the government's Smart Cities plan risks hastening slum evictions.
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The virtual wealth infusion altered its surroundings, spurring rent hikes, evictions, and development aplenty.
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The Lebanese army has previously carried out evictions of Syrian refugees, citing security concerns.
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These evictions meant a new cohort seeking space in an already cramped housing market.
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India passed the Street Vendors Act in 2014, which protects from evictions and relocations.
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The group, LatinoJustice, argued in the suit that it would lead to families' evictions.
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He called on the country to halt evictions without the provision of alternative housing.
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Evictions dropped to 21,988 in 2015, an 18 percent decline from a year earlier.
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They carried fluorescent poster boards with handwritten messages denouncing the evictions and government corruption.
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I sent a short Google Doc questionnaire, asking about criminal history and past evictions.
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In recent years South Shore has led the city in housing vouchers and evictions.
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" He also urged a "moratorium on evictions, on foreclosures and on utility shut offs.
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The vast majority of evictions in America happen because tenants cannot pay the rent.
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It lived in City Hall in the 1930s and stared off threats of evictions.
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Today, corporations must answer for increased rents and evictions, and for worsening traffic jams.
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Amnesty said the December evictions were carried out despite a High Court injunction that forbids the eviction or arrest of Sengwer resident in the forest, pending the hearing of a court challenge to the legality of mass evictions carried out in 2014.
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Forced evictions mean losing housing and access to food, education and health services, he said.
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Instead, the homelessness problem needs to be tackled at one of its major sources: evictions.
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But quantifying the effects on tenants—and, consequently, the benefit of forestalling evictions—is difficult.
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In one Florida community, residents are considering legal action as conditions deteriorate and evictions increase.
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One has heard that evictions have risen in areas where universal credit has been implemented.
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Moseley also said authorities would work slowly and with the charities to start the evictions.
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Most, besides acting as coroners, also handle small claims, arraignments, warrants, evictions and other duties.
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Evictions followed, under heavy police presence, and as protests mounted, the story made national headlines.
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New York state has suspended both residential and commercial evictions for the next 90 days.
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Illegal evictions are now misdemeanors punishable by civil penalties between $23,22 and $21975,26 per violation.
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He fled the city after the police came to arrest him for publicizing the evictions.
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The state of New York banned evictions outright until further notice, and Maryland did too.
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The administration announced yesterday that it would halt foreclosures and evictions performed by federal agencies.
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The city has announced a moratorium on commercial evictions for small and medium-sized businesses.
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But only 13 states have banned the enforcement of evictions statewide, addressing an important loophole.
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It also imposes restriction on evictions - a significant factor in the state's burgeoning homeless population.
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The United Nations experts have asked Beijing to address the reports of evictions and demolitions.
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Ms. Bush will soon have to stop paying some landlords, which could lead to evictions.
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This will significantly reduce poverty, help families at risk of becoming homeless, and reduce evictions.
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It is possible that evictions may not substantially worsen the financial states of those at risk.
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Candidate Jane Kim lists two of her top three issues pertaining to homelessness, evictions, and housing.
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San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley have programs that limit rent increases and forbid evictions without cause.
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Several evictions were carried out during the monsoon and in the winter, leaving families particularly vulnerable.
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"The effort to link apartment renovations with harassment and illegal evictions is simply wrong," he said.
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Some aid workers who witnessed the evictions said uniformed government soldiers were involved in the demolitions.
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Due to the evictions and constant demolitions, much of the neighborhood looks like a war zone.
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Over that time, Bredenberg said, he's been party to 12 evictions of homeless encampments in Berkeley.
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"His videos became important evidence about the human rights violations during the evictions," Mr. Poon said.
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And housing courts have been scaled back too, as evictions statewide stand suspended until further notice.
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Housing advocates and attorneys across the country are demanding a nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures.
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The governor also ordered a 90-day moratorium on evictions of all residential and commercial tenants.
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Biden also called for a halt on evictions for those who miss rent or mortgage payments.
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A halt on evictions is "the fundamental answer that solves all of the above," Cuomo said.
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Thus we would have an endless chain of evictions, by which the landlord will accomplish nothing.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Finance Agency suspend foreclosures and evictions.
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In other cases, evictions target residents and family members who complain about not getting adequate assistance.
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Some moving companies specialize in evictions, their crews working all day long, five days a week.
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Conor Dougherty takes a look at an increase in evictions in the aftermath of the fire.
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Wiener says his fix can, over time, address all that without worsening the state's drumbeat of evictions.
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Perhaps this is better than forest evictions, but it is not an adequate protection of their rights.
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"There are a lot of illegal (evictions) happening in this region," Soave told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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From Peru to Indonesia, laws aimed at conserving forests are leading to the evictions of indigenous people.
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To avoid legal wrangles or vigilante evictions, ownership rights would have to be given to current residents.
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Across the city last year, there were nearly 262,26.4 evictions, with the greatest number in the Bronx.
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Just two weeks after the Oakland Ghost Ship fire, evictions have begun across the U.S. in response.
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Most cases are over nonpayment of rent, and landlords welcome the declining number of evictions as well.
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While evictions are unlikely, landlords may have to cut back on maintenance and improvements in their buildings.
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"There were some cave evictions in 2013," says Lola Boloix, a representative of the Albaicín Neighborhood Association.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he's exploring suspending commercial evictions for up to 30 days, too.
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The statistics I found paint a worse picture: 11,000 evictions took place in the borough in 2012.
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Since the project launched, they noted, forced evictions are not as common as they used to be.
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The migrant camp in Grande Synthe, Dunkirk, which is the next French camp in line for evictions.
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Wells Fargo is also suspending residential property foreclosures, evictions, and involuntary automobile repossessions for the time being.
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And I banned some other evictions, for instance conversions to condos, two days ago, are now banned.
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Evictions and foreclosures are being suspended for all federally backed properties and in certain cities and states.
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But the evictions have set off a rancorous dispute between officials in Tikrit and politicians in Baghdad.
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Some families with Islamic State relatives have fled Salahuddin Province altogether to avoid evictions, Mr. Hamad said.
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Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.
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Evictions and dubious tax strategies have turned the new buyers into a target of frustration and anger.
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Footage includes burning houses, mutilated bodies, bloodstained soil, severed heads, mass evictions and displacement, and eyewitness testimonials.
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More than half of that money is spent on housing for homeless families and programs that prevent evictions.
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The Jakarta city government has defended its move and vowed to push ahead with the evictions despite criticism.
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Another 325 evictions were set to take place this year, the institute said, citing the government's planning documents.
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"The last thing that we want are evictions," a HUD spokesperson wrote in an email to The Verge.
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"Overall, these results suggest that formal evictions may have a quantitatively small direct effect on poverty," they wrote.
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But along with other hunter gatherer communities they have faced repeated evictions from the land since colonial times.
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An official at the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) said there were no forced evictions from the reserves.
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The Lebanese Armed Forces could not be reached for comment and has made no statement on the evictions.
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" It added: "Illegal forced evictions are acts of vengeance that are detrimental to national reconciliation and social cohesion.
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Dried-up savings, low-income jobs and high rents often means frequent evictions for the most vulnerable families.
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From India to Indonesia, laws aimed at conserving forests are leading to evictions of indigenous people, activists say.
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Focusing on technology may widen inequality, while the upgrades raise the risk of gentrification and evictions, she said.
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That means we could see mass evictions and people displaced far away from where they want to live.
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The evictions have persisted despite a court order to halt them, according to Elias Kimaiyo, a Sengwer activist.
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HUD estimates that 32,000 federally subsidized households and 55,000 children would be subject to evictions under its proposal.
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Last year, evictions in New York City fell to their lowest level in a decade, court estimates show.
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Even though evictions used to be rare, they are becoming more frequent as the price of housing increases.
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The bill also imposes restriction on evictions without cause - a significant factor in the state's burgeoning homeless population.
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And ever since then, it's been heavy harassment, heavy policing,'' she said, which ultimately led to the evictions.
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The instrument had been small enough to lug along through evictions and drug busts, house fires and raids.
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The RTC cites studies that estimate guaranteed representation for tenants could cut evictions by as much as half.
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Sanders, in his speech, called for a moratorium on evictions, foreclosures and utility shutoffs during the coronavirus pandemic.
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During evictions past, I adopted a superstition: Wherever I move, I always leave at least one box packed.
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Here is an interactive map of New York City evictions, which are among the leading causes of homelessness.
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All the municipalities that are imposing moratoriums on evictions should be willing to experiment in the months ahead.
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They will protest evictions, fight developers, organize against tax breaks and unfurl banners in front of tech buses.
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They are offering mortgage modification programs to decrease monthly payments, and they are temporarily suspending evictions and foreclosures.
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Evictions will be suspended, and maternity benefits will be extended until after the epidemic as well, Orban added.
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The measures, however, do not cover those who are facing foreclosures and evictions from all affordable housing providers.
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Other states have followed New York State's lead, including California, which introduced a 290-day ban on evictions.
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The evictions and economic displacement that have accompanied rising home prices have awakened a long-dormant renters' movement.
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He also noted the possibility of large-scale evictions of renters, mass business closings and even food shortages.
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These mass evictions trample on the human rights of Chinese citizens and were met with unusual public backlash.
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Hudbay, which was not the owner of the mine at the time of the evictions, denies any wrongdoing.
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They weren't there to carry out any evictions but rather to block the intersection for the big party.
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Forty people a day are evicted in Milwaukee; each day in New York City brings 60 marshal evictions.
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Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare enough to draw crowds.
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With mass layoffs due to business shut downs, some local governments halted evictions and public utility shut-offs.
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Several cities are suspending evictions to avoid adding to the population of people sleeping in encampments and shelters.
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Sanders also called for suspending student loan payments, mortgage payments, and evictions for the duration of the crisis.
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Collect better data on evictions to improve our understanding of the problem and how to fix it. Yes.
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Just-cause requirement for evictions We must recognize that we are in the midst of an eviction crisis.
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Bernie will protect tenants from unjust evictions and provide support to ensure we keep families in their homes.
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The Miami-Dade County Police Department issued a notice that it would not be assisting homeowners in evictions until further notice, and the city of San Jose, California approved a 30-day moratorium on evictions for residents who can document that they've faced significant financial hardship because of the coronavirus.
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But Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opposes the evictions, which the court ordered by mid-July.
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Human Rights Watch reports that displaced populations remain vulnerable to sexual violence and forced evictions in government-controlled areas.
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"There is a small group of collection lawyers who do almost all of the evictions," the attorney told me.
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Yet it has become clear that the engine behind evictions is poverty and that they are bad for tenants.
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I was staying loyal so I don't respect what they've been trying to do for the last two evictions.
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The HRW report accused security forces of arbitrary arrests including children, torture, extrajudicial killings, collective punishment and forced evictions.
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The evictions in Cucuta came in the wake of a small anti-Venezuelan protest in the town on Sunday.
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Many FLDS members have left the town amid government-ordered evictions because group members refused to pay occupancy fees.
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People lose their homes for a variety of reasons — job losses, wrongful evictions, excessive rent hikes and so forth.
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Refreshingly, some public intellectuals in Beijing signed a petition deploring the recent evictions as a violation of human rights.
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The U.N. refugee agency said so far there had been no violence or forced evictions in the Bekaa Valley.
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Plus, fewer evictions inevitably lifts a tremendous cost to the city from homeless shelters, emergency rooms, and law enforcement.
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JEI said it had documented 11 people killed during and in the aftermath of the evictions, including two children.
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Evictions of slum dwellers have already been seen in about a third of the planned smart cities, she said.
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In a rare move, more than 100 prominent Chinese intellectuals circulated an open letter online, criticizing the forced evictions.
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Bangladeshi police said villagers in the area feared evictions, the disturbing of family graveyards and damage to the environment.
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Evictions are increasingly carried out in extreme weather conditions, without notice, and with large numbers of police, Chaudhry said.
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The results are overcrowding, bad housing, the inability to afford other essentials, frequent evictions and other features of poverty.
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And unlike regimes like China, it makes less use of punitive punishments like the death sentence and forced evictions.
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She mounted her own guerrilla street theater protests, as well as rent strikes and legal action against the evictions.
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He also proposed a moratorium on evictions that he hoped would keep the homeless population from growing even more.
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Right now, each state can do something and stop the enormous flood of evictions: Give the tenants a lawyer.
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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) put a moratorium on residential evictions Friday amid the continued spread of the coronavirus.
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In this bill, House Democrats need to fight for debt cancellation, a moratorium on evictions, foreclosures and shut offs.
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He also announced that he's going to issue a moratorium on evictions, both residential and commercial, for 90 days.
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The campaigns against bad landlords go on, as do the evictions and poor services, one case at a time.
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The move comes days after San Francisco lawmakers pressed for legislation that would ban evictions related to the coronavirus.
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"The last thing that we want are evictions," Julián Castro, the HUD secretary, said during a call with reporters.
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The declaration seeks to protect rural populations from potential rights violations such as forcible evictions, land degradation and displacement.
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Many protests, evictions, and tons and tons of sand later, the lake remains largely undeveloped but completely filled in.
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The evictions were resisted by French citizens, who were appalled that this could happen in this day and age.
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San Francisco has begun cracking down on spaces, and inhabitants of warehouses throughout the Bay fear increased inspections and evictions.
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Taking over spaces to prevent evictions is extremely time-intensive (obviously), and a tactic rarely requested by the tenants themselves.
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But, they said, evictions and harassment of rights holders had led to a situation of "continuous conflict" in forest areas.
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After their evictions, many castmates had nice words to say about her, both on the show and outside of it.
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Although New York City is not a focus of the article, it also has a great number of problematic evictions.
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We pretend that evictions are part of a "justice" system, but no justice is provided to the poor by anyone.
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If the evictions in Beijing are any guide, the party's reaction to any discontent is likely to be greater repression.
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At the same time, Chinese immigrant working class tenants are facing landlord harassment, living under unsafe conditions, and forced evictions.
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In that case, they say, the money saved preventing evictions would offset 32 percent of the cost of ACA subsidies.
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Kenya insists any returns will be voluntary, even as the international community has urged caution and warned against forceful evictions.
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Civic groups say the evictions mostly target poor residents who have little legal recourse, as they have no formal rights.
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Last year the paper shared a Pulitzer Prize for public service, for uncovering unfair evictions of mostly poor New Yorkers.
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The artists' fear of displacement builds upon a recent wave of evictions that have affected the Los Angeles art community.
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By contrast, there are 14 courtrooms reserved for landlord-tenant disputes, most of which are initiated by landlords pursuing evictions.
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The rules affect evictions, security deposits, application fees and more, and could have an impact on policies in other states.
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Cities are halting evictions and utility shut-offs, and law enforcement officials are freeing some low-level offenders from jail.
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He cited the potential for major job losses, large-scale evictions of renters, mass business closings and even food shortages.
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They say that no mining security officials were present during the Lote Ocho evictions and that no rapes took place.
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She turned to Homebase, the city's homeless prevention program, which provides one-time rental assistance and help with fighting evictions.
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In 2012, Kushner said it took "a lot of construction and a lot of evictions" but the outcome was "phenomenal."
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He found that within a kilometer of the shuttles, prices of homes went up and so did evictions of renters.
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But local Sunni militiamen, along with Iraqi security forces, have themselves carried out some of the evictions — all targeting Sunnis.
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Security officials said the small militant cells occasionally fired mortars from Sunni neighborhoods where many of the evictions have occurred.
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She said the city would not have got away with the evictions were it not for the 240 Olympic Games.
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" It also says that they would "outlaw scabbing on striking workers" and "impose an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and evictions.
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The property was condemned by the City of Baltimore last December leading to the evictions of dozens of local artists.
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Though the move brought stability to most parts of the country the problem of ethnically-motivated evictions and displacement remains unresolved.
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A forest reclamation order passed in 2014 led to hundreds of such evictions, according to research organization Mekong Region Land Governance.
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This financial package contained a special provision to curb evictions and build sustainable council housing and youth centers offering social services.
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The events stem from September 2006, when the Mayan Q'eqchi' first attempted to occupy the land, prompting evictions by security forces.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development is scrambling to stave off evictions for thousands of families that get housing assistance.
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Sovetsky residents began protesting forced evictions in 2014, saying that the government's compensation for their property was far below market rate.
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Stanford undergrad Joshua Browder released a bot called DoNotPay in August, which helps those unable to afford legal aid fight evictions.
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The evictions are the highest recorded by HLRN since it began collecting information in 2015, she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Governor Ambode said evictions across the city are necessary to protect Lagos residents from kidnappers and criminals hiding in the slums.
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My aunt on my father's side offered this fact as an off-hand comment, but she never talked about the evictions.
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Evictions will continue, though the longer-term question is what will happen after the June elections, when Mr. Tronca is gone.
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There were positive economic signs for tenants, the board's research shows, with rising employment and wages and fewer evictions last year.
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Before then, the number had climbed every year since 2005, reaching a peak in 2013, when 28,849 evictions were carried out.
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But he stressed the new and aggressive efforts by the city to fight illegal evictions and to represent tenants in court.
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The reports of forced evictions were met with anger from some citizens online, as well as from local and health officials.
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This week, Beshear closed all non-essential retail businesses and issued an order halting all elective medical procedures and all evictions.
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And other protections, such as limits on security deposits and protections against evictions, would apply to all renters, stabilized or not.
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Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday banning evictions across California through May 31 for renters affected by the coronavirus.
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Tax collections and evictions will be suspended, and maternity benefits will be extended until after the epidemic as well, Orban added.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo stated that he "took care of the rent issue" by suspending evictions in the state for 90 days.
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The program, known as the right to counsel, targets 20 neighborhoods where evictions are high in an effort to fight homelessness.
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Definitions of financial hardship included the loss of a job, a cut in work hours, health emergency or foreclosures and evictions.
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"We don't see this as a policy that is meant to end in a whole lot of evictions," Mr. Castro said.
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The government must enforce a national moratorium on forced evictions and demolitions, and ensure there are enough city shelters, Farha said.
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Forced evictions in Camurca's village of Bom Lugar in Boca do Acre municipality exemplify the problems with Brazil's rural property system.
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The bill, which passed 13-25 in the Oregon House earlier this week, also provides renters protections against no-cause evictions.
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Like many poor families, Bloch's moved regularly, whether from evictions, windfalls, or his stepfather's periodic homecomings before leaving for jail again.
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Was the opposition to those French evictions a moment like the Stonewall riots, when the LGBTQ community fought back against persecution?
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The municipal government is carrying out mass evictions as it prepares to level some 21992 million square feet of illegal housing.
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These seller-financed transactions can become money traps that end with quick evictions by the sellers, who can flip the homes again.
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The home dweller is less protected than a person buying a house with a mortgage and evictions are quicker than a foreclosure.
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Another recent study by Robert Collinson and Davin Reed, two economists, applied a similar methodology to research on evictions in New York.
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Efforts to clean up the favelas have ranged from creating more infrastructure to wholesale evictions of residents to bulldozing of family homes.
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In Vila União Curicica, the concrete highway (known as the BRT) that was created to ease traffic has resulted in 350 evictions.
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More than two million people were displaced between Seoul 1988 and London 2012, according to the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions.
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"These lands belong to the government," said the colonel, who, as the senior military official responsible for the area, oversaw the evictions.
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The NLD has for years worked to support those who have faced forcible evictions, and is compiling a list of land disputes.
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A century ago, evictions were so rare in the United States that crowds—sometimes in the thousands—would gather to witness them.
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The plan to spruce up central business districts and build metro lines has triggered evictions of people from slums and informal settlements.
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In the wake of last week's tragedy, many are worried city officials will crack down on these spaces, which could cause evictions.
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"There are so many evictions happening in L.A., and only 33 judges to oversee," says Paul Lanctot, an organizer with the union.
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When it comes to evictions, the most important issue is the failure of local authorities to provide alternative accommodation, say Roma activists.
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Evictions would plummet, and so would the other social problems they cause, like family and community instability, homelessness, job loss and depression.
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Halting evictions is just one way to support the residents who bear the brunt of the change, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said.
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And evictions in Spain soared since the outbreak of the 2008 financial crisis, leaving uncertainty looming over many of the country's tenants.
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Instead of continuing to watch the homeless shelters swell beyond capacity, state officials aim to prevent the evictions in the first place.
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If I'm understanding correctly, it seems like there are two main issues with trying to solve this problem only by halting evictions.
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But for the rest of his life he battled drug addictions, mostly to heroin, and occasional evictions from his apartments and studios.
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On March 13, San Francisco Mayor London Breed suspended evictions of residents who can't pay rent due to impacts from the pandemic.
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Some state and local leaders have already suspended evictions during the pandemic, citing the financial uncertainty many renters and homeowners are facing.
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Cities like Miami, Baltimore, New Orleans and Nashville have suspended evictions during the outbreak to ensure more families do not become homeless.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom, in an executive order Friday, banned evictions statewide through May 31 for renters impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
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In New York City, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson tweeted that he agreed with a call to halt evictions during the pandemic.
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For years Unirule had faced pressure, including evictions from multiple offices, to quiet down, and yet had managed to go on functioning.
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Wells Fargo said on Friday it was suspending residential property foreclosure sales, evictions and involuntary automobile repossessions due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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The evictions sparked unusually direct criticism from China's intellectuals, students and journalists, who say the government is unfairly targeting the vulnerable underclass.
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He promoted the plan at a community resource center in North Charleston, where the campaign says evictions greatly outpace the national average.
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"Where do you go for evictions?" she asked a clerk, who pointed to a crowd of tenants shuffling toward the same room.
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The evictions have evoked unwelcome comparisons to collective punishments, including home demolitions, imposed by Israel against families of Palestinians accused of attacks.
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Sometimes, evictions are prompted by a change in ownership or management that prompts a re-evaluation of an assisted living center's policies.
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As the real-estate market has recovered in the wake of the foreclosure crisis and the ensuing recession, evictions have only increased.
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The city has provided free legal assistance to tenants facing eviction, resulting in evictions dropping by a third between 2013 and 2018.
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Campaigners say evictions have risen since the military government passed a forest reclamation order 13, which authorities say is essential for conservation.
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"There are definitely concerns that this will lead to evictions," said the man, a Deathtrap resident, refusing to give me his name.
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There were several high-profile evictions of Roma slums in France in 2015, which left scores of Roma facing an uncertain future.
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The home dweller has more limited protections than a person buying a house with a mortgage, and evictions are quicker than a foreclosure.
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Civic groups say the evictions mostly target poor residents who have little legal recourse, as they have no formal rights to the land.
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Campaigners say it would lead to mass evictions and destroy rainforest, wetlands and endangered species as it slices through protected and indigenous land.
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She estimates that there are around 3,000 evictions a year in San Francisco alone based on the number of cases in court calendars.
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More chauvinist groups are cannier, exploiting pent-up anger over local issues such as the evictions at Pasar Ikan to advance their cause.
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In January, Sihanoukville police opened fire on local farmers who had set tires alight and built barricades to protest evictions, according to Vanly.
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Brazilian prosecutors say they are investigating the evictions of Conceicao and his neighbors as part of an effort to crackdown on land violence.
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"Millions of New Yorkers still lack any basic tenants' rights and live with the threat of rent hikes, displacement, and evictions every day."
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If HUD implemented its "mixed-status" rule in full, the agency has said it would not proceed with enforcing evictions for several months.
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They also have displaced some two million people, according to a 2008 report from the Switzerland-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions.
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Campaigners say evictions have risen since the military government passed a forest reclamation order in 2014, which authorities say is essential for conservation.
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Construction began last year and has led to forced evictions and threatened protected sites and minority places of worship, the United Nations said.
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This year, research by the board's staff found positive economic signs for tenants, with rising employment and wages and fewer evictions last year.
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For these residents, even rent-controlled housing has become precarious, with formal evictions in San Francisco increasing by 55 percent over five years.
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The evictions have sparked unusually direct criticism from China's intellectuals, students and journalists, who say the government is unfairly targeting the vulnerable underclass.
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The project has been mired in controversy since it was conceived in the 1960s, with protracted battles over water sharing, evictions and compensation.
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Some cities and states have also announced bans on evictions "This is about communication with everyone you are connected to financially," Rebell says.
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Discharges and evictions have been the top-ranking category of grievances brought to state long-term care ombudsman programs, the ombudsman agencies say.
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Andrew Cuomo has ordered a 90-day moratorium on evictions, but some lawmakers, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, say that is not enough.
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Andrew Cuomo has ordered a 90-day moratorium on evictions, but some lawmakers, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, say that is not enough.
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But over the past few years, the LLDC has been heavily criticised for forcible evictions and eroding creative culture in implementing these plans.
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Gavin Newsom announced Monday that evictions would be halted and foreclosures slowed in order to help protect people struggling financially during the crisis.
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The Conservative Party is similarly promising to abolish "no fault" evictions, in addition to introducing one "lifetime" deposit which moves with the tenant.
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Discharges and evictions have been the top-ranking category of grievances brought to state long-term care ombudsman programs, the ombudsman agencies say.
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Some villagers are supported by networks of urban activists as they campaign against the officials or the state-affiliated companies behind the evictions.
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"Cities that deny housing are contributing to skyrocketing rents, unfair evictions and homelessness," said Lori Droste, a member of the Berkeley City Council.
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He proposed a moratorium on evictions, foreclosures and utility shutoffs, and a waiver on all student loan payments as workers face job losses.
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One Beijing artist who publicly documented the evictions, the painter Hua Yong, has since fled the country, according to the New York Times.
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The main transfer mechanism is land and housing costs, as rising rents and evictions push service and other low-wage workers to the brink.
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Forest tribes, who have been fighting for greater access to their traditional lands in Kenya since colonial era evictions, are optimistic about the reforms.
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The evictions stem from an order by a Utah state judge who became fed up with people not paying $100-a-month occupancy fees.
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In a landmark decision in June, South Africa's left-leaning Constitutional Court ruled that evictions may not be granted if they lead to homelessness.
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I), which has the highest non-performing loan (NPL) ratio in Ireland at 0.43 percent, said the bank managed just 80 evictions last year.
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In Thailand, protests have erupted, as evictions from forests and farm land have risen to make way for mines, power plants and national parks.
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I think we can strike a better balance by providing landlords with what they need and protecting tenants from this public marketplace of evictions.
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Behind these photos of bell-bottoms, Afros, birthday parties and interiors rich with period detail lay the invisible stories of evictions, dispossessions or separations.
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The municipal government has denied that the evictions are targeting migrant workers, or that they're part of the wider plan to reduce Beijing's population.
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I will accept that black children will not recover from economic inequality, housing discrimination, sexual violence, heteropatriarchy, mass incarceration, mass evictions, and parental abuse.
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The city will use data analytics to identify at-risk families and increase its use of legal assistance and rental aid to avoid evictions.
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Owners go to court for rent money, not looking for evictions, said Mitchell Posilkin, general counsel for the Rent Stabilization Association, a landlord group.
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Akron officials say they hope to avoid forced evictions and believe they are on track to offer alternate housing to all the tent residents.
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One reason for the evictions, legal advocates say, is that the residents' better-paying Medicare coverage is ending and will be replaced by Medicaid.
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However, the agency said, it will be up to the regional U.S. Attorney's Offices ultimately to determine whether to stop those foreclosures and evictions.
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Earlier today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo implemented a 90-day moratorium, or temporary prohibition, on evictions for residents and businesses such as restaurants.
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This would include a freeze on foreclosures, evictions, repossessions, utility disconnects, garnishments, default judgments and concessions of judgments, administrative offsets and negative credit reporting.
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And prior to the bill being passed they both put out guidance allowing for forbearance and putting a temporary hold on mortgage foreclosures, evictions.
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Frank White, the executive of Jackson County, which includes Kansas City, said halting evictions during the virus outbreak was the moral thing to do.
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The announcement comes as more than half of Maricopa County justices of the peace have agreed to automatic delays on evictions amid the pandemic.
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However, the agency said, it will be up to the regional U.S. Attorney's Offices ultimately to determine whether to stop those foreclosures and evictions.
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Last month in the Roxbury section of Boston, about 20183 people gathered for an afternoon assembly on how to blunt evictions and economic displacement.
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Rights activists, who fiercely oppose the decision, say the evictions are carried out often to appease property developers and to create luxury urban dwellings.
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"Women are disproportionately impacted by evictions," Jayson Richardson, a professor at San Diego State University in the United States, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Activists in Munich are planning a demonstration in March to protest against rising rents, displacement by speculators and real estate companies and forced evictions.
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Her childhood included frequent evictions from their homes in Chicago and, at times, heating bath water on hot plates, Hobson once told Vanity Fair.
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"(Evictions) should be done in accordance with the law and as humanely as possible," said Lempaa, who works with the Katiba Institute rights group.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development will temporarily suspend "all foreclosures and evictions" amid the coronavirus crisis.
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Otherwise the late payments that bankers and landlords tolerated in 2013 expecting prompt payment after the shutdown could turn into deep debt and evictions.
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Last year's event was preceded by a rash of sudden artist evictions, but hundreds more remain, representing the sustained creativity of the canal area.
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At other schools, shock troops of military police wearing body armor and toting pepper spray have carried out violent evictions, sometimes without proper legal orders.
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Sawant said she thought that winter evictions were "cruel," and that they disproportionately affect people of color and women, according to the Seattle news source.
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Land rights groups say evictions have risen since the military government passed a forest reclamation order in 2014, which authorities say is essential for conservation.
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Kenya's Office of the Attorney General was not immediately available for comment, but the government has justified the evictions on the grounds of environmental conservation.
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More than 100 people, including public intellectuals, signed a petition saying the evictions were illegal, an abuse of human rights and "clearly the government's responsibility".
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The tiger conservation authority has guidelines for the "voluntary relocation" of people who live within critical tiger habitats, although activists say forced evictions are common.
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The rapid growth of Indian cities, combined with unclear land ownership, is increasingly triggering legal disputes and violent evictions of poorer communities, rights groups say.
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Ten humanitarian organisations and 2500 residents of the camp had appealed to the tribunal, arguing forced evictions would be a breach of their fundamental rights.
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If there's a moratorium on evictions or recovering rent, they said, it's important that landlords and property companies still be compensated in some other way.
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New York and California have instituted a halt on evictions, but other assistance — including the possibility of cash payments to all Americans — remain mere proposals.
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But that did not stop migrant workers from reciting it at protests and other gatherings this winter, as the rate of evictions in Beijing intensified.
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Community mapping has also been vital in the fight against the forced evictions that sparked the Human City Project in the first place, Uwemedimo said.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development has halted all evictions and foreclosures until May 1 amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
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"The government has decided to take measures to place brakes on another social scourge this country suffers: evictions due to unpaid rent," one source said.
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States can halt foreclosures and evictions, impose moratoriums on rent and mortgage payments, and offer other forms of direct relief to their hardest-hit citizens.
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Then Trump announced on Wednesday that the Housing and Urban Development Department would suspend all evictions and foreclosures throughout April, according to the Associated Press.
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He said that the officers in the department do not have the right to enforce civil matters, which can range from administrative warrants to evictions.
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In Thailand, evictions of villagers and indigenous people from forests and farm land have risen to make way for mines, power plants and national parks.
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He said kampong development projects in the region have taken many flavors: from evictions in Indonesia's capital Jakarta to revitalization in Surabaya, another Indonesian city.
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Pholachi had been protesting evictions in the Kaeng Krachan National Park, which authorities wanted to be declared a World Heritage Site to draw more tourists.
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Pholachi had been protesting evictions in the Kaeng Krachan National Park, which authorities wanted to be declared a World Heritage Site to draw more tourists.
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"The Chinese government has not, is not and will not in the future do any forced evictions in the Hoh Xil nominated area," it said.
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Making data such as evictions, rent increases and safety violations for large landlords available to the public and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Despite crackdowns, evictions and re-housing programs, an estimated 113 million people across Latin America - or nearly one in five in the region - live in slums.
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He hoped the suit might force landlords to follow at least one aspect of local law by discouraging their lawyers from filing evictions without that certificate.
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Donwahi said the government would restart evictions from the Goin-Debe forest reserve - Ivory Coast's largest - and destroy cocoa plantations there following a one-month census.
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Federal officials say they want to avoid evictions, but the ban would be included in leases, and smoking violations would be treated like other nuisance violations.
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Members of the FLDS believe the evictions were accelerated this year to clean out voter rolls and rig the elections to usher in the outside candidates.
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For many of us, the unreliability of the subways and buses results in docked wages, extra child care costs, lost jobs, evictions and other grave consequences.
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Even keeping evictions off a tenant's record, a critical step for anyone determined to find a home in the future, can be overlooked without legal representation.
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Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo ruled that the rights of the residents had been violated and ordered that the state government stop further evictions and discuss re-settlement.
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Rolf Janssen, head of the Frankfurt tenants' protection association, said his group receives hundreds of calls each week from people worried about evictions or rising rents.
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Leilani Farha, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation she was pleased the court had taken forced evictions seriously.
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In an effort to mitigate displacement, the Los Angeles city council passed two renters' protection measures in late October which help people better fight unjust evictions.
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The KFS said it was not aware of any evictions during the Christmas and New Year period, a position that was corroborated by Kenya's environment ministry.
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She wants to fight back against water shutoffs and property tax evictions—you can't build utopia when kids don't have homes or running water, after all.
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"Evictions that are happening throughout the country, in a variety of different contexts, are not happening in compliance with international human rights law," Farha told Reuters.
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"The government is also going to stop some evictions for non-payment of rent in high-tension markets where there are vulture funds involved," Iglesias said.
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Pritzker said child care services will be provided to first-responders and that evictions of those who are affected by the spiraling economy will be halted.
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And last Wednesday HUD even announced a 60-day moratorium on evictions and foreclosures that would apply to about 8 million households with federally backed mortgages.
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Protections against evictions, including for seasonal residents, were also strengthened, making it harder to evict a tenant if a park owner decides to repurpose the land.
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Mr. Hua's work documenting the evictions of migrant workers touched a nerve with the authorities, said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based researcher for Amnesty International.
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Finally, as calls rose for lawmakers to figure out a way to halt evictions, Mr. Newsom told reporters that he'd have an answer on Monday afternoon.
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The economic stabilization package includes more than $12 billion for housing and protection from evictions and foreclosures, as the pandemic hits cities already in housing crises.
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The bill will impose a temporary moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for homeowners and renters living in federally subsidized apartments and homes with federally backed mortgages.
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All evictions will be stayed during this period, and all Stay Away Orders and Protection Orders in Domestic Violence cases will go on to May 1.
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"The government is also going to stop some evictions for non-payment of rent in high-tension markets where there are vulture funds involved," Iglesias said.
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She is no longer generating an income, and rent is bearing down in two weeks (though a moratorium on evictions in Washington state has been signed).
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But other pernicious aspects of the occupation — the demolitions of Palestinians' homes, the evictions of whole villages of Bedouins — have yet to make it on screen.
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Guatemalan indigenous people accused Hudbay Minerals of being behind forced evictions, in which women were sexually assaulted and their homes burned (the company denies the allegations).
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Firestone Liberia General Manager Don Darden confirmed the evictions in an interview and said employees who lose their jobs have 222 days to vacate company housing.
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The news on evictions is a glimmer of hope in the city's housing crisis and a reminder of the power of political activism and local elections.
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To prevent New Yorkers from falling into homelessness, the city has ramped up its anti-eviction legal services, and has seen a sharp drop in evictions.
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But campaigners say the program has caused more evictions of families assigned low cost housing previously under state ownership which has added to the housing crisis.
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His plans also aim to protect seniors' housing by increasing rental assistance, helping to prevent evictions and supporting building modifications so seniors can age in place.
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Underground venues across the US have faced a rash of evictions after a fire at a warehouse venue in Oakland killed 36 people in December 2016.
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Neighbors who had been tepid in the earlier effort to prevent evictions were incensed about Mr. Caballero, said Iben Falconer, who is married to Mr. Donnelly.
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In many ways this latest turn of events could be a fitting end for the Matagarup First Nations Camp, which was born out of government evictions.
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Many Jakartans approve of his urban-renewal schemes, but Islamists are not his only detractors: many oppose the evictions of slum-dwellers that his infrastructure schemes necessitate.
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Developers and landlords have made many of these into market rate and luxury units through predatory tactics such as forced evictions, cheap buyouts, illegal construction and harassment.
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According to the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute, which has been helping evicted families, there were 113 forced evictions last year, with each round typically involving many dwellings.
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It makes them more vulnerable to unfair rent hikes or evictions, and it excludes them from one of our country's most proven methods of building generational wealth.
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The municipal government tried to curb the growth of camps last September, when mayor Karen Rojo called for the mass evictions of 26 settlements across the town.
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With more skilled nursing facilities defaulting on leases, property owners are increasingly looking to receiverships as an alternative to evictions or bankruptcy, lawyers and advisers told Reuters.
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The Israeli Justice Ministry declined to discuss the evictions, or even to say how many Old City addresses now occupied by Palestinians were once owned by Jews.
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Most recently, the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced there will be no further evictions until May 14 and ordered 1,000 police officers out of the ZAD.
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Plans for further evictions are now on hold as a presidential committee, headed by the deputy speaker of parliament, takes more time to investigate the land dispute.
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This "creates a near-constant state of confrontation and potential for conflict and violence," including evictions and killings, said Janis Alcorn, a co-author of the report.
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"Most victims of evictions are Muslim and they're already resisting that, quite apart from the blasphemy," Novel Chaidir Bamukmin, head of the FPI's Jakarta chapter, told Reuters.
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Civic groups say the evictions mostly target poor communities who have no formal rights over their land or property, yet contribute to the city's economy and character.
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He had not gone to see the property since soon after the evictions, and the thought of revisiting the place didn't seem a pleasant one for him.
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An oft-cited 2012 study out of Milwaukee, for example, found that nearly a third of evictions or eviction under the city's ordinance included domestic violence calls.
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The publication of stories around the world about the forced evictions of around 77,000 local residents to make way for Olympic building projects didn't help the image.
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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday there would be a 60-day pause on "all foreclosures and evictions" for homeowners with mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration.
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Mass urbanization is expected to continue, still not out of people's personal preferences but at the state's behest, by way of residency restrictions, evictions and forced relocations.
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The relationship between France and its Roma population has long been strained, and a harsh government policy of forced evictions has further estranged the already-marginalized community.
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Eviction moratoriums are going into place around the US. Cities like San Jose, California; San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Boston have implemented a moratorium on evictions.
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To alleviate the financial burden on homeowners affected by the virus, Trump said that the federal government is suspending foreclosures and evictions until the end of April.
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At the end of the block, an aged building with narrow balconies has turned into a symbol for Portuguese activists fighting housing evictions, a new phenomenon here.
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The Tikrit evictions are perhaps a prelude to postcombat frictions in the city of Mosul, 140 miles north, if government forces can uproot Islamic State forces there.
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Tenants challenging evictions and rent increases faced long odds in housing court, where they often represented themselves against high-powered lawyers arguing the case of building owners.
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The bill would also create grants to fund legal representation for low-income tenants, too — a policy that has already led to fewer evictions in some cities.
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We need to preserve existing rent controls that prevent rent increases beyond 3-5% per year, and do what is necessary to avoid evictions without just cause.
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"We're going back into uncharted territory," said Jacob Inwald, the director of foreclosure prevention at Legal Services NYC, which helps low-income residents fight foreclosures and evictions.
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The huge profits and dubious tax strategies have made Wall Street a major object of frustration and anger, as people grapple with evictions and higher mortgage payments.
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Roughly a quarter of tenant households shell out over half of their income on rent, writes Dougherty, and evictions are dislodging around a million households every year.
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When he told Neil Donnelly, a shareholder who had been active in a previous effort to stem evictions within the complex, Mr. Donnelly gathered neighbors in support.
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Or that in Israel, as in the West Bank, Palestinian citizens face demolitions and forced evictions to make way for Jewish communities, military zones and national parks.
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De Pieri said the group suffers from widespread discrimination, including hate crimes and forced evictions, making it difficult for many to secure permanent housing or regular employment.
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"The problem with land evictions in Indonesia is that nobody has a (land ownership) certificate," said Januardy, who specializes in land rights cases and represents the slum dwellers.
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And while the independent voices needed to shed light on land evictions and graft are being squeezed out, the legacy of their work remains imprinted in citizen's minds.
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Read both in their entirety: there's plenty of fancy dinners, celebrity appearances, hotel room evictions, leaked Lil Wayne albums, doomed arts foundations, and $4,500 personal training packages within.
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Seattle's City Council on Monday voted to ban some residential evictions during winter months in a 7-0 vote after narrowing the scope of the originally proposed measure.
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We looked at publicly available court filings and found that a year after ELS took over, the number of evictions tripled to an average of 42 per year.
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The government-ordered evictions of sect families from nearly 150 homes forced many members to seek refuge in trailers around town or in different cities across the West.
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During the winter of 2017, when the Beijing authorities started clearing out migrant workers living in tenement style housing, Kuaishou was the only platform to document the evictions.
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As the ZAD evictions appear poised to resume in on May 14, the fate of the community's many incredible works of art, homes, and community projects remains unknown.
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"When these evictions take place we are concerned that the army will detain those without legal status," Bassam Khawaja, Lebanon researcher at HRW told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Landlords, increasingly not mom-and-pop shops but rather sophisticated operations with loads of capital, recognize their structural legal advantage enables them to push the envelope on evictions.
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He said that using TIMBY would have saved evidence he had collected of forced evictions, which he lost when security forces confiscated his phone and camera in January.
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Housing activists said the information was meant to help tenant organizers identify buildings where tenants may be most vulnerable to landlord harassment and to help prevent illegal evictions.
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Hillman added that despite the fact that the families had faced "disproportionate hardship" and "may well be rendered homeless," he would deny an injunction to stop the evictions.
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Alongside, evictions are rising: at least six homes are pulled down and 30 people forcibly removed each hour in India to make way for metro stations and highways.
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Civic groups say the evictions and redevelopment plans mostly target poor communities who have no formal rights over the land or spaces they occupy in the congested city.
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The Housing Court generates referrals of pending evictions involving disabled people to a TPP clinician, who functions as a neutral intermediary between the landlord and the disabled tenant.
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For a population who is used to evictions and being told to move along, the dwindling likelihood of being able to stay the summer isn't exactly a surprise.
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Cities like Seattle and San Francisco and states like New York have temporarily suspended evictions to support residents who've been sidelined by the coronavirus and can't pay rent.
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"The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing immediate relief to renters and homeowners by suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April," Trump said.
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Mr. Hua feared China's strictly controlled news media would not cover the evictions accurately, so he decided to document and publish online his own videos of the crackdown.
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It would money to help individuals and small businesses, including forbearance on federal loans, a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, assistance for small businesses and emergency child care.
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Sanders' coronavirus plan went further than Biden on some measures, including an immediate moratorium on all evictions and foreclosures, as well as the construction of new homeless shelters.
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While Donald Trump has ordered a freeze on foreclosures and evictions for almost half of single-family U.S. homeowners, the renter class has been left in the dust.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency separately announced on Wednesday that it would similarly suspend foreclosures and evictions for those with mortgages underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
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One of San Francisco's largest landlords says it is halting evictions of tenants who cannot make their rent due to financial disruptions brought on by the coronavirus disease.
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The Karnataka state high court has prohibited further evictions, and asked the municipal corporation and the police to respond to its queries on the eviction by Jan. 29.
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These privileged gentrifiers are raising median rents and often, as real-estate developers use the morally dubious machinations of illegal evictions and underhanded buyouts, forcing out longtime tenants.
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That, plus expanded legal aid to prevent evictions, more mental health services and his long-term affordable housing plan, could go a long way toward containing the problem.
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Most LGBT+ refugees prefer to take their chances, illegally residing in Nairobi where they risk arbitrary arrest, evictions and harassment - but where they can live in relative anonymity.
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Humanitarian groups say forced evictions would breach the migrants' fundamental rights and worsen the plight of some 350 to 400 minors in the camp, some of them unaccompanied.
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And there's no way all of it is turning out O.K. We have spectacular stories about civil injustices that people experience — informal evictions, harassment by landlords, wage theft.
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As demolition work enters its stride on day three of the evictions, VICE News returns to the Jungle to find out what life is like for those affected.
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It said construction, which started last year, had led to forced evictions and threatened a large number of Lahore's protected heritage sites, historic buildings and minority places of worship.
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It was Purnama who ordered the evictions from Luar Batang's slums to make way for one of his many infrastructure projects aimed at modernizing this clogged and chaotic city.
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Her account is consistent with residents' claims of officials carrying out threatening actions against them since evictions began in 2014 (in other communities, they started as early as 2010).
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Yet Lagos' government will only plunge its poorest residents deeper into poverty if it pushes ahead with evictions, said Sola Tayo of the London-based think tank Chatham House.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian land rights protesters clashed with city security guards on Monday as demonstrators in the capital Phnom Penh called on the government to end forced evictions.
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"We are only relocating those people from core tiger habitats who are willing to move; there are no evictions," said Debabrata Swain, an additional director general at the NTCA.
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The judge ordered a stop to future evictions in a move that could prevent an estimated 270,000 other residents of Lagos from losing their prime waterfront homes to development.
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Earlier this month, Serbia's Supreme Court of Cassation ruled that banks should convert Swiss franc loans to euros and halt evictions of borrowers who could not make mortgage payments.
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Another Sengwer campaigner, Milka Chepkorir, said the EU decision to suspend funding was "one step in a million" and the government should stop the evictions to allow for negotiations.
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"Whenever an eviction is required, we take all the necessary steps and resettle whoever is eligible with all amenities," said Jai Prakash Agrawal, speaking of evictions in the city.
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The footage is unforgettable and harrowing—women lying prone beneath the construction cranes to stop them, and grandmothers staying up all night with bats to guard against night evictions.
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There have also been demolitions and evictions in slums in the cities of Indore and Bhopal in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, which were named as Smart Cities.
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Anjali Nayar, TIMBY's founder, said the app's ability to geo-reference videos, pictures and audio files enables Sengwer people to record and report activities like illegal logging and evictions.
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In a city with an $82 billion budget and a $1 billion surplus, it shouldn't be hard to find the money to protect thousands of people from wrongful evictions.
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Others, meanwhile, find themselves facing evictions because they are not aware of the state the houses are in and cannot meet deadlines to bring the property up to scratch.
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That could spell disastrous waves of evictions or foreclosures across the country, not to mention utility shut-offs, late fees, and an inability to afford basic survival needs. Sens.
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Washington's temporary law extends unemployment benefits to those out of work because of the virus, prohibits both residential and commercial evictions and delays retail tax payments to the city.
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Modi denounces evictions of doctors India may still have fewer than 1,000 cases but the fear of pandemic has caused panic buying and attacks on front line medical staff.
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One of San Francisco's largest property owners will halt evictions for tenants facing financial hardship related to the coronavirus disease outbreak, the company wrote to residents in an email.
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During the Depression, the party took on fights not just for better wages and working conditions but also against evictions by landlords and abuses of the criminal punishment system.
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These companies have nevertheless become a flash point for people struggling with evictions and higher mortgage payments, regardless of how involved they are in forcing harsher terms onto tenants.
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During a City Council meeting on Tuesday, several people used the public discussion period to complain that the city was responsible for unfair evictions since the Ghost Ship fire.
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Evictions, often over as little as $100, cause tremendous stress on families and can lead to worse health outcomes, job losses, and an unacceptable disruption in a child's education.
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Worried about conservation of forests, some environmental groups had filed the initial petition seeking evictions, and state governments had disputed the families' land claims made under a forest rights law.
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With no place to go after Saturday's evictions, hundreds slept on the ground in the square in front of the building with their belongings packed in trash bags and suitcases.
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The evictions "are terrible for all of the tenants, but as a former tenant of seven years, the landlords were also terrible for the tenants," artist Andrew Thompson told Hyperallergic.
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A recent study of limits on rent increases and evictions in San Francisco found that the policies decreased the supply of rental housing, causing a 5% city-wide rent increase.
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"The cancellation of licenses and evictions have resulted in vendors losing their life savings, pulling their children out of school, and losing assets such as homes and vehicles," he said.
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But Browder released a new bot in August — in partnership with Centrepoint, one of the UK's largest youth homelessness charities — to help those unable to afford legal aid fight evictions.
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The special winter edition is expected to feature multiple episodes per week during a "concentrated" run and will include Head of Household and Power of Veto competitions and live evictions.
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A Washington Post investigation published Thursday found that properties in low-income Georgia neighborhoods linked to Fox News host Sean Hannity requested court-ordered evictions at double the statewide rate.
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Some cities allow only "just cause" evictions, meaning that a landlord has to have a reason for evicting a tenant, whereas other cities allow eviction for any reason at all.
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Some migrants lit shacks on fire to protest their evictions and threw rocks at police officers in riot gear, who pushed the migrants back with tear gas and water cannons.
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"It's only a movement in the right direction if it means that owners are receiving the rent they need to operate their buildings," he said of the drop in evictions.
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Sanders called for a moratorium on evictions, foreclosures and utility shutoffs during the coronavirus pandemic during his speech, and also pointed to pervasive problems that existed before the pandemic began.
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One worker, Wang Bo, wrote a poem about evictions titled, "Sweet Homes": In this cold, dark night, in this cold dark night, do I still have the courage to sing?
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The bride, 34, is a senior staff lawyer at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A in Williamsburg, where she represents low-income families and works to prevent evictions in housing court.
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His union is looking to begin crowdsourcing funds to help people who may face evictions, not have access to health care, or don't have enough money to go grocery shopping.
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Doug Ducey (R) on Tuesday announced a delay in evictions for Arizona renters who have lost income due to the coronavirus pandemic or been quarantined as a result of it.
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Two rounds of evictions, in 2013 and 2016, displaced tens of thousands of farmers and their dependents, and were criticized by human rights groups for widespread abuses by security forces.
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But the government is now considering a new land policy, drafted last year, which would rule out forced evictions of slum dwellers and address their current lack of land security.
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But some buildings lie fallow for years between tenant evictions and demolition, and others, like the 1952 State Theater that the explorers filmed recently, are partly open to the public.
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Far-left politicians want to tighten laws to stop evictions and protect tenants, including those who are over 65 and have lived in their property for more than 25 years.
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Nearly half of the forced moves of renting families in Milwaukee are "informal evictions," which, like many rentals, involve no paperwork, and take place in the shadow of the law.
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Some of these hurdles are purely psychological — naturally, a generation that grew up in the midst of foreclosures and evictions would be scared of buying property — but most are material.
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" Shortly after, Trump announced at the White House briefing that HUD "is providing immediate relief to renters and homeowners by suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April.
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A tenant-rights-nonprofit worker by day, he watched the influx of tech companies lead to higher rents, more evictions, and a general sense of displacement in an already marginal community.
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In a recent report, it noted that in France, evictions have been on the rise since the 27s, from a few thousand judgments a year to more than 26,53 in 25.
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Last year, hundreds of farmers walked nearly 303 miles from Guanare, in western Venezuela, to the presidential palace in Caracas, incensed by supposed arbitrary evictions and unjustified persecution by state authorities.
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Their homes are squeezed behind shops on a commercial strip that was recently cut in half by evictions, clearing the entrance for a new park with nature trails and tourist facilities.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lebanon's army has ordered evictions that could threaten the homes of 10,000 Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday.
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Evictions are almost routine for the Ogiek, a group of around 80,20073 indigenous hunter-gatherers who have suffered repeated expulsions since being moved by the British colonial government in the 1930s.
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LSC-supported lawyers provide legal representation in a wide variety of cases, including domestic violence, child custody disputes, unlawful foreclosures and evictions, predatory lending, wage claims, and denial of essential benefits.
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In fact, economic justice is a high priority in the Greens' plan, which includes national improved Medicare for all, free higher education, affordable housing and utilities, ending evictions, and fair taxation.
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But another Massachusetts US District Court judge last weekend issued a temporary injunction on the evictions until checkout time Wednesday in response to a complaint filed by the nonprofit LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
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Others faced surprise evictions, having signed a contract that did not disclose what repairs were needed, yet set a deadline for making sure the home was up to local housing code.
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Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf, as a means of protecting the city's own residents of DIY spaces, announced in January an executive order ensuring safety upgrades for such venues and preventing evictions.
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Kenyan authorities are stepping up evictions of poorly built buildings after a six-story block in Huruma district - which lies next to Mathare - collapsed on April 29 after days of rain.
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In some states, like Virginia, which has five of the top 10 cities on the list of cities with most evictions, the number of renters who have faced eviction is jarring.
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Two rounds of evictions, in 2013 and 2016, displaced tens of thousands of farmers and their families and were criticised by human rights groups for widespread abuses by government security forces.
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The city is considering a temporary "just cause" eviction ordinance that would allow evictions only when tenants have broken their lease, failed to pay rent or damaged their home or apartment.
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Landlords are prohibited from evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent and the enforcement of evictions by courts or law enforcement is also banned, according to a statement from the governor's office.
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In a subsequent phone conversation, a supervisor at the court told Ms. Raghuveer that it was "business as usual" and he had six deputies out who were each executing several evictions.
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"These included lifting the total abortion ban in Chile, achieving a step towards marriage equality in Taiwan and securing a landmark victory against forced evictions in Abuja, Nigeria," said the report.
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Several local humanitarian groups lodged a protest against the evictions, arguing that about 3,400 people including women and children were living in the earmarked area, more than triple the official estimate.
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As Ogiek elders gathered to chat in Laboot village in Chepkitale forest, they expressed hope that the KFS reforms will help to restore indigenous trees and end forced evictions of forest communities.
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Filip is an organizer and activist with Zwangsräumung Verhindern Berlin (Stop Evictions Berlin), a group that came together in 2012 on the crest of growing opposition to rising rents in the city.
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Forced evictions and demolitions of homes to make way for big construction projects currently under way in Tashkent, for instance, have led to widespread condemnation—something Mr Karimov would have stamped out.
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"Divisive specifics" and "the fractures in Israeli and Palestinian society" are mentioned in the article, but absent is any mention of occupied territories, illegal settlements, home demolitions, evictions, or human rights violations.
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Just before the live evictions, Julie gives the three houseguests in peril — Mark, Ari, and Ross — the opportunity to make a case as to why Marissa should take them to the end.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil - the world's fifth largest country - has launched a digital tool to monitor changes in land use, amid simmering violence over land ownership, corruption and evictions.
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"We really want to be sure that the evictions are not used as a backdoor to forced returns to Syria," Mike Bruce, a spokesman for the Norwegian Refugee Council, said by phone.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rapid growth of Indian cities combined with unclear land ownership is increasingly triggering legal disputes, analysts said, while rights groups report violent evictions of poorer communities.
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Land conflicts and forced evictions are a major problem in Cambodia, with thousands of families driven from farmland or urban areas to make way for property developments or mining and agricultural projects.
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In August 2012, following concerns raised by the EU, an "inter-ministerial circular" was sent to regional authorities, offering guidance on evictions - including advice on housing, education and health provision for evictees.
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Part of that loyalty is tied to his land, part of a farm seized from white owners and divided among black supporters years ago during Mugabe&aposs often violent campaign of evictions.
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He noted that the court system has also lost employees in recent years to budget cuts, so it can take weeks longer to get warrants for evictions when landlords win a case.
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Fast forward to 2016, which saw the local government actively breaking up the neighborhood to make room for a new urban development project through a series of forced evictions and police raids.
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Mr. Brown said longer stays on evictions would limit an landlord's ability to remove tenants with behavioral issues, which could negatively affect neighbors and the building's finances if the tenant withheld rent.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has ordered a 2500-day moratorium on evictions, a lifeline to people who cannot pay rent and are worried about losing their homes during the crisis.
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Mr. Pashteen and his allies say that Pashtuns, who make up about 15 percent of Pakistan's population of some 204 million, have endured countless human rights violations, from disappearances to forced evictions.
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The statement also cited accusations of evictions at Yachen Gar, sometimes known as Yarchen Gar, an enclave largely of nuns that is also in Sichuan and has a population of about 10,000.
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The government reformed its land law in 2013 in an attempt to reduce unrest over such evictions, but analysts say the changes were largely cosmetic and did not address many underlying problems.
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Today the forced evictions will continue with inevitable consequences and without doubt someone will get seriously hurt as this goes on, as they have in past clashes of course, sometimes fatally so.
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In an effort to halt runaway housing costs and curtail evictions, Oregon is expected this week to become the first state in the nation to cap how much landlords can raise rents.
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Police violence during favela operations and evictions linked to such events is one of the children's rights violations highlighted by the Children Win campaign, led by Swiss humanitarian organization Terre des Hommes.
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In addition to increased violence and evictions, organizers said children in Rio also have suffered from reduced social services, including healthcare and education, because government money has been diverted for the Olympics.
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Because there were no body of tenants' rights laws at the time, evictions in Gilded Age New York grew from 16,000 per year in the early 1880s to more than 23,133 by 1892.
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Evictions are cheaper than making repairs; the mortgage payments on these places are minimal; if all goes to hell, you can always stop paying taxes and surrender the place back to the city.
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Last month, India's Supreme Court stayed its earlier ruling that had ordered the forced evictions of millions of indigenous people whose land claims were rejected, following a last-minute plea from the government.
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His case is emblematic of the kind of intimidation and harassment activists have faced when attempting to monitor the treatment of migrants and refugees and police behavior during forced evictions from makeshift camps.
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Protests have erupted in recent years as evictions from forests and farm land have risen to make way for mines and power plants that villagers say are hurting the environment and their livelihoods.
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It will directly follow a panel discussion on Evictions, Artists and Displacement, featuring Parker, Nancy Uyemura of 800 Traction, artist Robby Herbst, artist and curator Dulce Soledad Ibarra, and writer Julian Smith-Newman.
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A distinct ethnic and cultural community, described by the United Nations as "among Europe's most excluded groups," they have faced persecution throughout Europe for centuries, including pogroms and forced evictions of entire communities.
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"Even though the government has nice policies on paper, we continue to face land grabs... and forced evictions throughout Indonesia," said Rukka Sombolinggi, deputy head of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago.
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Preparations for the Beijing 2008 Olympics saw forced evictions to make way for venues while China's human rights record remained a topic throughout the seven-year process to the start of the Games.
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On a congressional delegation to Israel-Palestine in 2010, then–House Minority Whip Eric Cantor offered his support for Israel's evictions of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers.
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Evictions in New York City dropped last year to their lowest level in a decade, as the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio bolstered efforts to prevent more New Yorkers from becoming homeless.
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Low-income renters and many local officials who run housing programs see the federal assistance as a semi-permanent hedge against evictions and homelessness that needs to be expanded in times of crisis.
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Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley wrote to President Donald Trump Thursday to demand a stop on foreclosures and evictions for properties owned or insured by a slew of federal housing and finance authorities.
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The urbanist Jane Jacobs knew as much, but her "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" was published in 1961, after evictions of working-class public housing residents were already well underway.
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In New York, however, the regulations do not apply to the approximately 1,300 courts located in towns and villages, a sprawling system that handles everyday issues such as minor criminal offenses and evictions.
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But while the Harvard group cited evidence that institutional landlords may be more likely to initiate evictions, it conceded that the jury is still out on what kind of landlords institutional investors make.
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Rent control is key to stopping evictions and protecting families from losing the sudden disruption of losing their homes, jobs, or security—and it has already worked in places like New York state.
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Police said security forces were guarding the site on Thursday to prevent disruption to construction work that villagers fear will force several evictions, disturb graveyards where relatives are buried, and damage the environment.
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Another of Choeung and Lau's companies was embroiled in the eviction of thousands of families from a development site in Phnom Penh; many of those who protested the evictions were beaten and jailed.
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Despite the online headline "The Eviction Machine Churning Through New York City" (May 20), the number of evictions last year, out of 2.2 million rental units, was about 21,000 — less than 1 percent.
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The union accused Firestone of looking for excuses to remove workers without having to pay severance and took the case to a local court, where a judge ordered Firestone to halt the evictions.
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Along with new legislation intended to close tax loopholes and restrict mass evictions, lawmakers are considering requiring banks and financial firms to follow a code of conduct and provide alternatives for troubled homeowners.
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Two decades ago Mugabe's government carried out at times violent evictions of 4,500 white farmers and redistributed the land to around 300,000 black families, arguing it was redressing imbalances from the colonial era.
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Bernie will implement a just-cause requirement for evictions, which would allow a landlord to evict a tenant only for specific violations and prevent landlords from evicting tenants for arbitrary or retaliatory reasons.
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The city of Seattle helps fund some tent camps, they said, through financial or logistical support, but the city also continues practices of sweeps and evictions for unsanctioned camps that it doesn't want.
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Related: Evictions and Resistance: On the Front Lines of London's Housing Crisis No local government agency even has an estimate of how many people are camping or sleeping in cars instead of in homes.
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"Because he knows how important it is to keep people in their homes, Mike attacked predatory lending as Mayor and helped other cities craft innovative strategies to reduce evictions as a philanthropist," Wood said.
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One estimate for Shelter's project finds that for every £1 spent in its first five years there will be £2.65 in savings thanks to fewer evictions and nights spent in prisons, hospitals and hostels.
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Applicants interested in renting the shed must have a credit score of 650, an income of 2 1/2 times the rental amount, no history of evictions and rental references, according to the listing.
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The U.N. special rapporteur on the right to housing said last month that she had asked the Nigerian government for information on the evictions, the methods used and their compliance with international human rights.
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The union organizes against harassment by landlords, mass evictions, and displacement of people from their neighborhoods due to mass rent increases, as well as the repeal of the Ellis Act and Costa-Hawkins Act.
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The Palestinian families and their supporters claim the evictions, often based on seemingly arcane violations of their rental agreements, are part of a broader agenda to create Jewish enclaves inside the historic Muslim Quarter.
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Backed by a slew of police officers and a pointless fire engine, around 15 representatives of private evictions company the sheriff's office swarmed around the mansion and battered on the reinforced doors with rams.
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The Mingaladon evictions were carried out by the General Administration Department (GAD), which runs unelected local governments and reports to the home affairs ministry, according to a copy of the order seen by Reuters.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A series of brutal, government-ordered evictions that left more than 30,000 Nigerians homeless were deemed "unconstitutional" in a landmark decision by the Lagos High Court on Wednesday, activists said.
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At least six homes are destroyed and 30 people forcibly evicted each hour in India, with the government's 'Smart Cities' projects responsible for most evictions, according to advocacy group Housing and Land Rights Network.
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In his recent book, "Evicted," he showed that evictions were a regular feature of life in lower-income neighborhoods, and that they were not just the result of poverty, but that instability causes poverty.
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The numbers in a report released this year by Princeton University's Eviction Lab confirmed what housing advocates and public-interest housing law scholars have always known: Evictions from rental housing are a national epidemic.
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But because one unidentified buyer could be behind many L.L.C.s, it's hard to know who is acquiring the most property, or which property owners are behind the most code violations or the most evictions.
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The new federal measure does not apply to the more than 80 million renters across the nation — though housing advocates and attorneys across the country are demanding a nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures.
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In addition, Trump said that the Department of Housing and Urban development, in an attempt to provide "immediate relief" for homeowners and renters, would be suspending foreclosures and evictions through the end of April.
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"The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing immediate relief to renters and homeowners by suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April," Trump said at a White House press briefing.
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The record number has come even as the city has diverted tens of thousands of people from homelessness by pouring millions of dollars into new rental assistance programs and legal assistance to fight evictions.
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The appeal of the tactic is clear: By withholding rent as a building, a collective, or as a community, tenants hold tremendous leverage over landlords to fight rent increases, evictions, and housing rights violations.
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After controlling for population and other variables, the authors estimated that Medicaid expansion was associated with 1.16 fewer evictions per 1,000 households per year (ie, a cut of around 7% in the eviction rate).
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He says he would create an office within the Department of Housing and Urban Development to strengthen rent control and tenant protections and make data on evictions and rent increases available to the public.
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"We are excited by any resetting of Bay Area rents that bring them down from their artificially inflated high," said Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, the executive director of Housing Rights Committee, which fights against evictions.
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This gap puts too many New Yorkers on razor-thin budgets, so that any contingency, like a sickness or a lost job, can lead to evictions, homelessness and immeasurable distress from a disrupted life.
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The bank said it will deal with giving relief in each situation on a 'case-by-case' basis for the following products: The bank also said it has paused foreclosure sales, evictions and repossessions.
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Since the fire, evictions from these spaces have been on the rise, stoking fears that the city's response to the tragedy will only lead to displacement and upheaval of the already-vulnerable underground artist communities.
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Chaman also called for the local Mayan Q'eqchi' to unite against the mining company, and condemned its security force's evictions of his people, which locals allege involved the burning of homes and rape of women.
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Realizing that people could soon be pushed into homelessness due to lost wages, police in Miami-Dade said Thursday that they wouldn't help landlords with evictions — essentially freezing the legal process to formally remove tenants.
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Unlawful evictions, such as when a landlord illegally locks out or uses force to evict a tenant, would become a crime, a misdemeanor punishable by a civil penalty of between $1,000 and $10,000 per violation.
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On September 218, 2015, the Paris High Court ordered the eviction of the residents, who unlike tenants in France, are not protected by the "winter amnesty" — a moratorium on evictions during the cold, winter months.
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She and other working-class women in her Brooklyn neighborhood formed tenants' unions, fighting for rent control and taking militant action, like pouring boiling water from teakettles onto those who arrived to carry out evictions.
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An order issued by the governor's office Monday night temporarily authorizes local governments to halt evictions and directs the state's Department of Business Oversight and Housing to collaborate on efforts to help Californians avoid foreclosure.
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"The bill will protect millions of renters from rent-gouging and evictions and build on the Legislature's work this year to address our broader housing crisis," Newsom, Chiu, and legislative leaders say in a statement.
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China says matters related to Tibet are internal affairs, but Chinese officials in Beijing have privately expressed some concern over outside perceptions of the demolitions and evictions at Larung Gar and related Western news coverage.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on the Iraqi government on Friday to intervene to halt forced evictions of people suspected of having ties to Islamic State from the city of Mosul and other areas.
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" It's unclear whether the rash of evictions and inspections late last year had anything to do with this 4Chan organizing, "but that hasn't stopped them from congratulating themselves on seven shutdown spaces across the country.
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BREAK-INS AND EVICTIONS For security staff at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the Ericsson situation was just one dark cloud in a gathering storm, according to internal documents and 103 people with knowledge of the matter.
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Dominated by golden sand, his aerial views of the Negev are beautiful, even abstract, until you realize that they are scarred by shell craters, signs of military maneuvers, the ruins of ancient villages and recent evictions.
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"His Lordship said that he found evictions without adequate notice and resettlement to be cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment," said Megan Chapman, director of Justice and Empowerment Initiatives, an advocacy group in Nigeria in a statement.
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New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement that, while farmers were notified of the impending evictions, the authorities failed to ensure that villages bordering Mont Peko could shelter and feed them.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's Sengwer people will have hi-tech help fighting forced evictions in their forested homeland - an app that will share a $1 million prize announced on Monday by a U.S. philanthropic organization.
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Lorraine Carrington, who signed the original letter from Prince Hall Plaza and who Ms. Miller said claimed that the housing agency would not accept tenants with evictions, said she knew Ms. Miller but declined to comment.
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One of our best-read stories today looks at the deepening tensions in San Francisco between tech workers and pretty much everyone else, as rising rents spur evictions and a surging population strains subways and highways.
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At least six homes are destroyed and 30 people forcibly removed each hour, with efforts to modernize urban centers and build 'Smart Cities' responsible for most evictions, according to advocacy group Housing and Land Rights Network.
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From Mumbai to Manila, the urban poor settle under bridges, along creeks and railway tracks, and beside landfills, under threat of forced evictions by authorities keen to modernize the cities and build more offices and malls.
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The mayor spoke as he and California's governor, who ordered all coronavirus-related evictions banned through May 31, toured a newly arrived naval hospital ship equipped with 1,000 patient beds at the Port of Los Angeles.
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"Where I am, Michigan, it is OK right now because Governor Whitmer stopped all evictions until April 17," said Brian Gilmore, an associate professor of law and director of the housing clinic at Michigan State University.
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The mayor of New York City, which had 95 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Thursday, declared a state of emergency and warned of the potential for job losses, food shortages and large-scale evictions of renters.
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While President Trump has indicated that all foreclosures and evictions will be halted until the end of April, that still may not be enough if workers lose their jobs altogether in the wake of the virus.
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Evictions, always a leading cause of homelessness, have been falling in part because the city has heavily funded one-time rental assistance programs and legal aid for tenants fighting landlords in housing court, Mr. Banks said.
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Using data from the Eviction Lab, a research group at Princeton University, the authors found that, between 2013 and 2016, evictions in states that expanded Medicaid fell from 17 to 14 per 1,000 renter-occupied households.
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Yet, the government made no demands on Invitation Homes to limit rent increases, maintain the properties in good condition or work with renters in a good-faith effort to avoid evictions in exchange for this benefit.
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The head of the mine's security during the 2007 evictions and the 2009 shootings, a former army colonel named Mynor Padilla, is now on trial in Guatemala over the shooting of Mr. Ich and Mr. Chub.
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The court used to take a break from evictions at Christmastime, but that was discontinued in 1991, after a landlord persuaded the American Civil Liberties Union to argue that the practice was an unfair religious celebration.
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Mr. Parnas's résumé includes work for companies that sold penny stocks in New York, a string of evictions and lawsuits in Florida and a judgment, now approaching $700,000, owed to an investor in a film project.
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But lawyers for the poor say that renters can fight evictions in court, and many organizations, including the Fair Housing Action Center of Maryland, have begun distributing fliers informing tenants of their rights under local law.
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There's been a workshop on how to fight evictions (always a relevant topic in a rapidly gentrifying city) and a class on how to turn old t-shirts into panties to curb environmental waste and consumerism.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Lagos state government has rejected a High Court ruling that it stop a program of evictions on the city's waterfront that has left more than 30,000 Nigerian fishermen and their families homeless.
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Experts say more than three-quarters of new arrivals end up living in a bastee - owned by private landlords who provide some services - as squatter settlements on public land have disappeared amid demolitions and evictions by authorities.
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"City Council and the mayor share the same goal: helping people facing evictions and keeping them in their homes, especially during the winter months," Durkan spokesman Ernesto Apreza said in an earlier statement, according to the newspaper.
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" Durkan's office said after the Monday vote that her office is assessing the bill but is "disappointed that Council did not want to engage in a robust discussion on programs that will legally and actually prevent evictions.
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The public housing directors association noted that those with mobility problems, such as older adults and people with disabilities and mental illnesses, might end up being the most vulnerable to evictions if they continued smoking at home.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Delhi High Court has ruled that forced and unannounced evictions of slum dwellers without consultations or resettlement plans are illegal, striking a major victory for land rights campaigners in the Indian capital.
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"It stresses the need to stop viewing the poor as 'encroachers' and illegal occupants of the land, and calls for due process to be followed by the state before carrying out any evictions," she said on Wednesday.
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Activists have been advocating for equal rights for women in China for years, but because of the government's strict rule, they face different struggles than their counterparts in the West — including online censorship, arrests, and forced evictions.
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In its June judgment, the court dismissed the adverse possession claim as Moi only owned the land for 11 years prior to the 2009 evictions, after buying it in late 1997 from Ol Pejeta, a cattle ranch.
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"For every luxury unit created, an untold number of households may be evicted and rendered homeless," Farha told a conference at the U.N. office in Delhi, calling for a moratorium on evictions and obligations to address homelessness.
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The 29-year-old member of the Democratic Socialists of America campaigned on single-payer health care, tuition-free college and has advocated for housing measures that would create millions of new units and prohibit unfair evictions.
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Evictions decreased by 22014 percent last year, to 21,988 from 26,857 in 2014, even as the number of cases filed by landlords for nonpayment of rent declined by only 2 percent, court and city marshals figures show.
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House Democrats are drafting their own stimulus package with extensive financial protections — including direct monthly payments of as much as $2,000 for adults; grants and debt relief for small businesses; and measures to halt evictions and foreclosures.
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Officials in Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and San Antonio, as well as New York state, have announced a suspension in evictions during the outbreak, acknowledging that residents might have lost income and cannot afford to pay rent.
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According to many of the tenants of 475 Kent Avenue I spoke to on Thursday, dozens of the building's 100-plus units now sit empty following a string of evictions since the building was sold last summer.
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The $2 trillion stimulus bill that President Trump signed on Friday included provisions to halt evictions in some federally funded housing, defer federal student loan payments interest-free and stop collections on those who are in default.
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As Asian cities expand and modernise, authorities often view street food vendors as a hindrance to progress and target them for forced evictions, although some cities have made efforts to accommodate them and help raise sanitation standards.
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In Bangkok, where street vendors have rallied against evictions, earnings are down by up to 80% since a partial lockdown began last week, according to Poonsap Tulaphan, a director of HomeNet Thailand, a network of informal workers.
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Their group, Dublin Central Housing Action, has taken part in high-profile occupations of disused offices or hotels that activists have turned into homeless shelters, and in confrontations with landlords at the homes of people facing evictions.
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Traditionally, women are regarded as inferior to men in Sithole's KwaZulu-Natal province, said women's land rights activist Sizani Ngubane, who has campaigned against evictions and abuse of women in rural areas for more than 40 years.
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"The current climate in the country has fueled fears that the lack of adequate documents among large sections of India's urban and rural poor could lead to evictions and destruction of their homes and property," she said.
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"We regard evictions generally as a symptom of a larger problem that we have, which is a lack of housing that's affordable," said Greg Brown, the senior vice president of government affairs for the National Apartment Association.
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Most poor people and a majority of moderate-income individuals lack "basic civil legal assistance," including help on "evictions, mortgage foreclosures, child custody disputes, child support proceedings and debt collection cases," the American Bar Association report said.
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By the same token, while his plan does call for imposing a "just cause" requirement on evictions, there's no language in the proposal protecting tenants from being displaced by landlords taking advantage of the capital improvements provision.
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When Bernie is president, he will: Implement a just-cause requirement for evictions, which would allow a landlord to evict a tenant only for specific violations and prevent landlords from evicting tenants for arbitrary or retaliatory reasons.
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Mnuchin was labeled the "foreclosure king" for his former position as CEO of OneWest Bank, which has been accused of predatory lending and responsible for thousands of evictions that disproportionately affected senior citizens and people of color.
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Stop Evictions Berlin is one of more than 22014 groups in more than 231 countries that are part of a larger, even more ungainly named group, European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City.
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"We urge the Iraqi government to take action to halt such imminent evictions or any type of collective punishment, and to reinforce the formal justice system to bring perpetrators to justice," he told a news briefing in Geneva.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities are renovating one of the world's largest centers of learning for Tibetan Buddhism to prevent overcrowding and fires, a state-run newspaper said on Tuesday, denying Tibetan rights groups' charges of demolition and evictions.
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With weeks of no income and a loss of health care coverage, our members will face evictions, have to ration or share medications like insulin, and be forced to choose which prescriptions they can afford to stay on.
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Luar Batang residents had just about given up their fight against evictions when the controversy over the Koran comments erupted, said one woman who did not want to be named, sitting outside a small shack amid the rubble.
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In April a court in Tongzhou, a district of Beijing (next to the area where the forced evictions took place), said 32% of the labour disputes referred to it involved collective agreements, almost double the proportion in 2016.
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"International law protects anyone who occupies land from forced evictions that either do not provide adequate notice or do not respect the dignity and rights of those affected, regardless of whether they occupy the land legally," HRW said.
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For as a revised master plan for Ethiopia's capital enters implementation stage, slum clearance has stepped up a gear and the focus moved away from the city's peripheries after mass protests against evictions and displacement there last year.
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Leaders often emerge from a bottom-up process, with reputations for getting things done - in particular, resisting evictions and securing basic services, according to research by Adam Auerbach at the American University and Tariq Thachil at Vanderbilt University.
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Interviews with residents at Larung Gar and reports from Human Rights Watch, Radio Free Asia and overseas pro-Tibet groups indicate that officials intend to reduce the settlement's population to 5,000 by late next year through mass evictions.
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Mnangagwa has even reached out to white Zimbabweans, including promising farmers there will be an end to the violent farm evictions that began in 2000 in what Mugabe defended as a way to address post-colonial racial imbalances.
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City governments are getting a much deeper understanding of how policy changes on deep-seated issues like housing, transportation and local retail interact with growing populations, new technologies, and related issues like evictions and loss of local businesses.
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Officials have granted more preventative measures — like sanitation supplies at encampments and a moratorium on evictions — to protect the homeless and prevent the disease from spreading to others, but advocates worry it might be too little, too late.
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Roughly half of the 2.2 million rental units in New York City are regulated, which means rents are only supposed to go up a small amount every year and tenants are supposed to be protected against unlawful evictions.
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On one of the city's waterfronts, in a solar-powered building called The Media Shed, a team of volunteers run Chicoco Studios, producing and performing songs about the evictions and other issues that affect people living in slums.
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Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle announced a proposal to issue $800 vouchers to more than 6,13 families to help them buy food and cleaning supplies and ordered a halt to most evictions, including for small businesses and nonprofits.
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"The thing that scares me probably more than anything right now is just the incredible onslaught of evictions that may be waiting for poor and working-class people on the other end of these moratoria," Ms. Raghuveer said.
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Their plan was to make renovations to create larger units and then sell the apartments as condominiums, a seemingly daunting challenge since all the apartments were rent-regulated, with tenants protected from large rent increases and unreasonable evictions.
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Although the Alameda County Sheriff&aposs Office typically conducts evictions during business hours, he said deputies decided to go early to "avoid confrontation" with community supporters who had gathered around the home on Monday and the week prior.
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"There have been more evictions, demolitions and non-renewals of month-to-month rentals in that part of town than any other part of town because it's in between fancy Coconut Grove and fancy Coral Gables," he lamented.
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He expressed concern that residents wouldn't have control over the data collected by these systems, that the technology could be used to enforce evictions, and that the police could potentially gain access to the system and its data.
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"Big Brother" evictions usually take place with an audience outside the house, and this was also a source of confusion for contestants in the Canadian version, who wondered why they couldn't hear a crowd outside during the show.
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Artists Against Evictions, an Athens-based artist group, published an open-letter addressed to the participants and visitors of Documenta 14 decrying the government's eviction of artists and round-up of refugees and displaced persons around the city.
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JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions in the country's capital.
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At the same time, the mayor's procrastination on the appointment of a director of the MACRO, Rome's contemporary art museum, together with a series of evictions of prominent occupied cultural spaces, has led to a dearth of cultural activity.
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Durkan's office has said the city should focus on "directing tenants to proven … programs that already provide millions of dollars to individuals and families to keep them in their homes," saying such initiatives averted hundreds of evictions last year.
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" Though Ateret Cohanim is not involved in these particular evictions, Mr. Luria argued that these rights are even more relevant for buildings that "happen to be in an area they were kicked out of because of pogroms and riots.
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Evictions have ceased and the Ogiek are rehabilitating parts of the Rift Valley's Mau Forest one year after Africa's highest human rights court told Kenya to compensate the forest-dwellers for violating their land rights, an Ogiek campaigner said.
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The supreme court's emergency decision to prevent the evictions will allow the Guarani-Kaiowa to remain on the land until the court issues a final decision on its ownership, which could take up to 10 years, dos Santos said.
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" And as Iraqi Security forces close in, the UN says it is seeing an "alarming rise in threats, specifically of forced evictions of those suspected of being ISIS members or whose relatives are alleged to be involved with ISIS.
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"There does not seem to have been sufficient due diligence and consultations with the community... despite the fact that evictions in Kenya by state security agents are well known to be characterized by violence and high handedness," it said.
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She said many countries had argued forcefully for the adoption of goals and targets, for example a reduction in numbers of the homeless, increases in housing for the poor or a drop in forced evictions, but nothing was agreed.
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Worst of all, of course, is that Ms Suu Kyi, the erstwhile champion of the oppressed, refuses to condemn the soldiers, the police and the Buddhist chauvinists in Rakhine who have been responsible for the rapes, killings and evictions.
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But I'm no fortuneteller: I asserted that the Olympics were already a public calamity for many citizens, especially for those affected by the evictions, by police brutality and by the anti-democratic shakedown of an unequal and segregated city.
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As the evictions ended in Amona, which was built in 1995 without Israeli government authorization, the housing minister said his department was offering land in settlements for 2,000 new housing units so that "a bigger Amona" could be built.
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That was the lowest number of evictions since 903, when 21,945 heads of household lost their homes, according to Housing Court Answers, a tenant advocacy group that runs the information tables at Housing Court and compiles annual eviction totals.
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On Wednesday, the federal agency overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-run finance firms that back the mortgages of 28 million homeowners, ordered a suspension of foreclosures and foreclosure-related evictions for at least two months.
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On Wednesday, the federal agency overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-run finance firms that back the mortgages of 28 million homeowners, ordered a suspension of foreclosures and foreclosure-related evictions for at least two months.
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The plan would "get money directly into hands of American people" and include health care affordability measures, forbearance on federal loans, a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, assistance for small businesses and emergency child care, according to his office.
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The plan would "get money directly into hands of American people" and include health-care affordability measures, forbearance on federal loans, a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, assistance for small businesses and emergency child care, according to his office.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday the Department of Housing and Urban Development will suspend foreclosures and evictions for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration until the end of April, a move that will affect about 8.1 million mortgages.
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About 70% of land in developing nations is undocumented, exposing more than a fourth of the world's population to conflict and evictions, according to Cadasta Foundation, a Washington-based non-profit that develops digital tools to document land data.
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About 70% of land in developing nations is undocumented, exposing more than a fourth of the world's population to conflict and evictions, according to Cadasta Foundation, a Washington-based non-profit that develops digital tools to document land data.
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This feeds the grim cycle Ms. White and Ms. Kelly know well: the abbreviated stays in shelters, the faint hope of independent housing, the evictions, the return to beds they do not own and have little interest in occupying.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forced evictions of local communities from their lands by foreign companies fuel around two-thirds of land ownership disputes across Africa, often sparking strikes or violence which can prove costly to investors, activists said on Thursday.
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There are no official records of evictions in India, but data collected by the advocacy group Housing and Land Rights Network showed the government destroyed at least six homes and forcibly evicted 30 people each hour in India in 2017.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rights activists called on Tuesday for the release of a prominent Cambodian land rights campaigner after a court upheld her sentence in a case which has become emblematic of the struggle by local communities against evictions.
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If someone wanted out of a deal, "most of the time we let them out," he said, as long as they repaid money the investors had shelled out as down payments, or on getting rid of tenants through evictions or buyouts.
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As laid out in a story by the Detroit Free Press, the evictions presage the closing of the complex, due to multiple violations of city ordinances and safety and building codes, according to Detroit's Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department (BSEED).
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If the rancher did have a legitimate claim to the land where Conceicao and the others were living then evictions still are not supposed to happen until there has been a public meeting between the conflicted parties, the prosecutor said.
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Indeed, it was just about three years ago that San Francisco protestors from the Coalition on Homelessness took over Airbnbs headquarters to protest what they viewed as the company's complicity in the surge in evictions and homelessness in the city.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's Ogiek people are optimistic of returning to their ancestral forests as the government has pledged to honor a landmark ruling ordering reparations for forced evictions, in a judgment that could impact others with similar land claims.
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It routinely jumped to foreclosure rather than pursue options to keep borrowers in their homes; used fabricated and "robo-signed" documents to secure the evictions; and had a particular talent for dispossessing the homes of senior citizens and people of color.
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Not only that, but a lot of the poor Jakartans who voted for the joint Widodo/Ahok ticket in 2012 in hopes of a new style of government have been the target of large-scale evictions under the governor's administration.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Cambodian land rights activist has been released from prison after receiving a royal pardon, having spent more than two years in detention in a case that came to symbolize the struggle by local communities against evictions.
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At the time of his disappearance, Pholachi was working with Karen communities on legal complaints against national park officials over the destruction and burning of houses and farms of families living in the park in a series of forest evictions.
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Spaniards (or rather, their maids) can scour a home clean like no one else, but bleach is the product of choice, and in recent years, the public has focused its measured fears on high unemployment rates, home evictions or government corruption.
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To put this in perspective, the 2008 financial crisis gave Americans a taste of economic unrest, with job losses, evictions, billions lost in retirement accounts and citizens of all ages forced to reassess their personal financial, career, family or life plans.
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Other studies find Medicaid expansion sharply reduces housing evictions; leads to earlier detection of lung, skin, and breast cancers; and increased the number of people getting medication-assisted treatment, the gold standard treatment for opioid use disorder, by about 50%.
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Vincent de Boer, a representative at the EU Commission in Nairobi, said they had been informed by the KFS that guards in Embobut forest were there to deal with cattle rustlers from the neighboring Pokot and Marakwet communities, not for evictions.
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On Monday, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, and members of his administration heralded the drop in evictions at a news conference and praised an effort started last year by the Human Resources Administration to support tenants who are facing illegal eviction.
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But evictions have continued, despite a law that gives anyone who has lived in a property uncontested for at least five years the right to apply for a land title, said Cheap Sotheary, a provincial coordinator with land rights group Adhoc.
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Congress should immediately halt evictions in federally subsidized, backed or insured housing, institute a moratorium on all foreclosure proceedings, increase funding for homelessness services and create a new program to allow homeowners to delay or modify their mortgage payments during disasters.
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Over the last two weeks or so, a whole host of state and local governments like Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York state and others have placed short-term moratoriums on evictions (although other cities have been less forgiving).
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One of the first things Uwemedimo did with it was take a giant, inflatable mobile cinema on a tour of low-income communities in the city to show them films about forced evictions around the world and in their own neighborhood.
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Anticipating a wave of late payments, Jason Hill, chief executive of R.G. Hill & Company, which owns and manages about 1,000 apartments in Northern California, said his company was already preparing to waive late fees and halt evictions for lack of payment.
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Anticipating a wave of late payments, Jason Hill, chief executive of R.G. Hill & Company, which owns and manages about 1,000 apartments in Northern California, said his company was already preparing to waive late fees and halt evictions for lack of payment.
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Montgomery said the FHA has a "robust set of tools" to deal with turmoil in the housing market in a crisis, noting they've suspended foreclosures and evictions before at a regional level in the wake of natural disasters like hurricanes.
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Working Washington has also called for a moratorium on evictions and the preservation of health care benefits, as part of a holistic program to prevent people losing housing or access to basic medical care if they're between paychecks for a while.
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MADRID, March 9 (Reuters) - Spain's left-wing government will restrict evictions of tenants who cannot pay rent, particularly in areas such as Madrid and Barcelona where the real estate market is particularly tense, two government sources told Reuters on Monday.
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The same sources said the government would prolong a ban on evicting vulnerable home-owners who miss mortgage payments - due to expire on May 15 - after announcing such evictions dropped by 25.1% in 2019, reaching their lowest level in 12 years.
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But now that there's cash on the way and people have the peace of mind of not knowing they have evictions, we just have to get through this first couple of weeks before we can answer the month-long questions.
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BUDAPEST, March 23 (Reuters) - Hungary's government will extend further help to small business owners to help them weather the economic crisis unfolding in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and will suspend evictions, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday.
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"We are doing all we can to help those adversely impacted by the coronavirus, including by immediately suspending foreclosure sales and evictions during this challenging time," said Donna Corley, executive vice president and head of Freddie Mac's single-family business.
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In Italy, mortgage payments are being suspended temporarily, but so far the Trump administration has made no mention of that in the U.S. Some members of congress have called for a suspension on both foreclosures and evictions from rental homes.
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In the 1930s, when the Great Depression catalyzed protests against impossibly high rents, tenants banded together to win rent moratoriums from governors, fight off police evictions, and withhold rent from landlords seeking to collect from those with nothing left to give.
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Some states, such as New York and New Jersey, as well as several cities throughout the U.S., have enacted temporary moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures, while housing rights groups are calling for rent payments to be suspended through the coronavirus pandemic.
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Domestic violence continues to drive homelessness in New York City, ahead of evictions and overcrowding, at a time when the city's primary shelter system is so taxed that Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to open 90 new facilities over five years.
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For decades, overseas subsidiaries have acted as a shield for extractive companies even while human rights advocates say they have chronicled a long history of misbehavior, including environmental damage, the violent submission of protesters and the forced evictions of indigenous people.
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Those who wheat-pasted frequently there included housing advocates opposing evictions, squatters making the case for taking over abandoned buildings and an anarchic noise band, the Missing Foundation, that warned of dire consequences if city officials closed Tompkins Square Park.
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Baraka, Newark's mayor since 2014 and the son of poet and African-American activist Amiri Baraka, and de Blasio, a former Democratic presidential candidate, appeared together in Newark last year to announce a tenant initiative aimed at ending illegal evictions.
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Mr. Desmond, 37, a director of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard, said he decided to investigate the causes and the repercussions of evictions as a way to write about the systemic causes of poverty in the United States.
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In a report in 2015, Philip Alston, the United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, wrote that too often evictions of Roma have taken place with little advance notice and in an "abusive fashion".
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"This is funding the ongoing human rights abuses by KFS that involve the burning of homes, forced evictions, and now their killing of a Sengwer community member," the groups, including the UK-based Forest Peoples Programme, said in an open letter.
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At the time of his disappearance, Pholachi was working with Karen communities on legal complaints against national park officials for the destruction and burning of houses and farms of families living in the park in a series of forest evictions.
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This is especially the case in the Bay Area: As in the '90s, there are widespread evictions, displacement, and rent hikes; there are startups with no discernible revenue models mainlining venture dollars, with the same opulent parties and similarly dubious job titles.
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BUDAPEST, March 11 (Reuters) - The National Bank of Hungary recommends that banks redouble their efforts to alleviate a large stock of non-performing loans and if possible avoid evictions of delinquent mortgage borrowers to avoid social tensions, the NBH said on Friday.
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"One of the main things that the court has recognized is that the preservation of forest land does not justify evictions of indigenous people," Claridge said by phone from outside the court where a crowd of Ogiek and Maasai sang and danced.
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"The reason on the surface for evictions and demolitions is that Lagos needs to be a beautiful city and that these people are illegal squatters," said a property developer who asked not to be named for fear of repercussions from the state government.
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"Khan is saying the right things, but what we really need to see to prove that this is something different are actual arrests and convictions as well as evictions of those Taliban and Haqqani leaders who don't support peace," an official said.
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In a report released on Wednesday, the Upstate/Downstate Alliance predicted that the number of people living in shelters around the state could reach 100,000 by 2020 unless more regulations to safeguard tenants from high rents and evictions are put in place.
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Dozens of people were seen walking out with luggage when Reuters visited one of the apartment blocks in Beijing's Tongzhou district on Thursday, where forced evictions have been reported and a banner which read "crack down on illegally rented apartments" could be seen.
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Several artists and musicians were also displaced this year when two other live/work spaces in the city were served with evictions: The Ghost Town Gallery, a 4,000-square-foot warehouse and music venue established in 2003, and another two-story industrial building.
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The fear and lack of amenities are but a memory today, after she became a community leader in the Jadibanagar slum and pushed residents to apply for a program that gave them facilities and a guarantee of no evictions for 10 years.
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Three months later, as Harresh Mehta's company was being pilloried in the Indian press for the evictions and alleged fraud in Golibar, Bloomberg reported that Trump was going to "alter Mumbai's luxury landscape" by partnering with Rohan to build India's first Trump Tower.
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Immigration Minister Peter Dutton earlier told 2GB radio he stood by the detention policy that the government says is necessary to deter asylum seekers from attempting perilous sea voyages to Australia, and that it would not back down from its evictions from Manus.
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After visiting makeshift migrants camps in Paris and the port town of Calais, urban squats in Marseille and Roma settlements in dingy city outskirts, Rapporteur Leilani Farha called for an end to evictions that violated international law ensuring the right to adequate housing.
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And while President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that there would be a 60-day pause on "all foreclosures and evictions," the rules only apply for homeowners with mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration and those backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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In 2010, with former journalist Ana Bonaldo, he co-founded the Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform (CMAP), a collective of filmmakers, urban planners, researchers and Port Harcourt residents who use art, music and data collection to mobilize the people impacted by forced evictions.
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The government is seeking to drastically increase the amount of energy it produces, but local's fear that power plant projects could lead to potentially thousands of evictions and the razing of schools and religious sites in the densely packed South Asian nation.
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He said he knew plenty of Republicans who were bothered by Mr. Moore's record: two evictions from his job as the state's chief justice, along with repeated assertions that homosexuality should be criminalized and that the First Amendment does not protect Muslims.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A push to digitize land records in India to establish ownership and minimize conflicts has raised concerns over privacy for poorer communities and could make them more vulnerable to evictions, legal and technology experts said on Monday.
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In Mosqueda's home state, the organizing group Working Washington has called on leaders to not only preserve medical benefits, but also place a moratorium on evictions, curb utility shut-offs, and offer emergency income assistance to stem the fallout from the coronavirus.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A push to digitize land records in India to establish ownership and minimize conflicts has raised concerns over privacy for poorer communities and could make them more vulnerable to evictions, legal and technology experts said on Monday.
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But this, too, can be mitigated by delivering more aid through existing safety net programs, which are devised to help those in the greatest need, and by limiting the potential consequences, for example by imposing a moratorium on tenant evictions and foreclosures.
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The Government Accountability Office report found that 26 states could not report the number of "critical incidents" — physical assaults, sexual abuse, unexplained death, unauthorized use of restraints, medication errors and inappropriate discharges or evictions — occurring in assisted living facilities in their state.
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But I keep thinking, are we entitled cowards for even considering fleeing while people in Hubei Province (Wuhan is its capital) are dealing with overcrowded hospitals, supply shortages, evictions and abuse; while medical professionals are on the front line risking their lives?
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After graduating summa cum laude from the City University of New York in 2013 and the University of Dayton with a law degree in 2016, she went to work representing low-income New Yorkers facing evictions and substandard living conditions at Boom!
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The Government Accountability Office report found that 26 states could not report the number of "critical incidents" -- physical assaults, sexual abuse, unexplained death, unauthorized use of restraints, medication errors and inappropriate discharges or evictions -- occurring in assisted living facilities in their state.
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It was a terrible loss for Seattle's housing advocates, who were hoping for a systemic response to doubling rents, inhumanely fast evictions (Washington State has a three-day notice period) and a rise in the number of families living in their cars.
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Written with the vividness of a novel, it offers a dark mirror of middle-class America's obsession with real estate, laying bare the workings of the low end of the market, where evictions have become just another part of an often lucrative business model.
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Neuralink occupies a denim-colored office building in San Francisco's Mission District, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood that's been locked in protests against tech commuter shuttles and evictions, becoming a symbol of the devastating effects of the industry's wealth on the communities that came before it.
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For the first time in Big Brother history, fans will be able to watch every aspect of the season play out live via CBS All Access, including all the Head of Household (HOH) and Power of Veto competitions, as well as the weekly live evictions.
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She notes that it was he and other leaders who set the evictions in motion more than a decade ago when they opted not to challenge in court allegations of mismanagement of the church trust, leading Utah and Arizona governments to take it over.
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As AWF came under fire over the evictions, it gifted the land in 2011 to KWS, despite a court order for the status quo to be maintained until the case was concluded, in a move described by the TNC report as an "escape strategy".
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Congress party President Rahul Gandhi, who has made land rights a key part of his campaign ahead of national elections due by May, on Saturday asked chief ministers of Congress-led states to file petitions against the court order "to preempt large scale evictions".
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Middle class sympathy The evictions appear to have awoken some members of China's ever-expanding middle class to the plight of the average migrant worker -- the people who not only helped build Beijing, but make sure that its day-to-day needs are met.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - City officials in New Delhi have demolished hundreds of shanties in the past week, leaving up to 1,500 people homeless for winter, in the latest of several such evictions this year across the country as officials race to upgrade cities.
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A meeting of local leaders the same day in August last year denounced nearby Roma as criminals and demanded evictions, while a mob circled homes, pelting buildings with rocks and trashing a community where many Roma had lived for a decade, said rights groups.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Sengwer, a tribe living in the forests of western Kenya, say they have faced a fresh round of evictions by Kenyan authorities to pave the way for a European Union-funded project to protect water catchment areas in the region.
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Cities and states around the country — including Baltimore, Boston, Kansas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York state, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle — have announced bans on evictions to keep renters from being kicked out of their homes for at least the next month.
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David R. Wright of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in the memo that wrongful evictions were "of great concern" because they could be unsafe or traumatic for patients, uprooting them "from familiar settings" and moving them far from family and friends.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency also ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the companies behind about half of the nation's $11 trillion mortgage market, to suspend foreclosures and evictions for any single-family mortgages they back for "at least 60 days," the agency said.
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In a sign of how fractured the political class remains, Senate Democrats are conferencing to discuss a $750 billion aid proposal which would include expansions to unemployment insurance, school financing, public transportation, Medicaid, additional healthcare funding, loan assistance and a freeze on evictions and foreclosures.
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LSC, which doles out grants to nonprofits but does not directly provide legal services, said the boost in funding would help its 132 grantees "assist low-income clients facing job losses, evictions and other problems stemming from the pandemic," in a statement on Thursday.
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Over the past year or so, the homeless count has essentially stabilized, thanks in part to the work the city has put into preventing evictions, even as hundreds of refugees have entered the shelter system from Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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Several cities have put moratoriums on evictions of both residential and commercial tenants, while dozens of banks including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo have agreed to halt new foreclosures and temporarily waive mortgage payments for borrowers whose finances have been affected by the virus outbreak.
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David R. Wright of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in the memo that wrongful evictions were "of great concern" because they could be unsafe or traumatic for patients, uprooting them "from familiar settings" and moving them far from family and friends.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Days after nearly 200 homes were demolished in an informal settlement in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, human rights groups and slum dwellers said they expected more such evictions as a new citizenship law is enforced in the country.
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Now, on the brink of a re-election campaign, he can make a case that the emphasis was smart — the city's existing legal services program has reduced evictions by 24 percent over two years — and that the increased financing will be money well spent.
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But on a recent Saturday afternoon, the usual clusters of selfie-snapping tourists and cafegoers were met by hundreds of demonstrators carrying signs that read, "We're all staying" or "Say no to crowding out," and protesting rising rents, forced evictions and rampant real estate speculation.
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Many of the challenges indigenous people now face, such as forced land evictions, tourist development, and dumping of nuclear waste, "are all related and congregate on land issues," said Chun-chieh Chi, professor in ethnic relations at the National Dong-Hwa University in Taiwan.
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As of March 1, a moratorium on evictions of non-paying mortgage borrowers ended and banks may now liquidate the assets behind 144,000 contracts, worth a total of 1.3 trillion forints ($4.65 billion), where borrowers fell at least 90 days behind payments, the central bank said.
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While Ireland's economy has recovered, clocking the fastest growth in Europe for four straight years, a push to purge the soured loans has stalled - a legacy, critics say, of forced evictions of peasants by absentee landlords in the 19th century that sowed a national aversion to repossession.
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On a previous trip, we found that police and military raids in low-income and immigrant communities over the past year have led to widespread allegations of abuse, including extrajudicial killings, mass arbitrary detentions, maltreatment of detainees, forced evictions, the destruction of homes and arbitrary deportations.
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The demonstrators and the authorities blamed each other for the escalation of violence, set against the backdrop of angry demonstrations and the burning of dozens of cars since June 22, when the police carried out evictions at a house occupied by squatters in Berlin's Friedrichshain neighborhood.
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In Boston, a bill far more modest than Prop 103—it was intended merely to track evictions and give the city a way to notify evicted tenants of their rights—was killed in the state legislature this past May after landlord groups put pressure on lawmakers.
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If you are facing reduced hours or job loss and are worried about making your rent or mortgage payment this month, stay calm — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development will suspend "all foreclosures and evictions" through the end of April.
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The stimulus package comes after the Federal Housing Administration, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, put in place a 60-day moratorium on foreclosures and evictions for 8.1 million owners of single-family homes who have mortgages backed by the office.
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Cuomo will also be putting in place a 90-day moratorium on all commercial and residential evictions, a sweeping move for the home of the biggest city in the U.S. The provisions are in place indefinitely, with Cuomo adding that it could last, "two, three, four months."
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Biden's commonsense wisdom that better things aren't possible looks a bit foolish when states and cities are already taking steps—like pausing evictions and housing the homeless in hotels—that they could have taken without a pandemic, demonstrating the arbitrary limits that Democratic politicians put upon themselves.
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" Labour also plans to give tenants greater security by introducing "open-ended tenancies to stop unfair 'no fault' evictions," as well as putting in place new minimum standards for rental properties and creating renters' unions across the country, in a bid to help tenants "defend their rights.
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Shankar kept hearing about other concerns in the community: the threat of widespread evictions, tied in part to these large bills; children's malnutrition, which quickens the body's uptake of lead; undocumented immigrants who feared opening the door when E.P.A. officials came by with water-safety information.
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He and the others ticked off initiatives under Mr. Buttigieg: a small-business resource center on the West Side where minority residents are concentrated; the hiring of the city's first diversity officer; legal help for tenants facing evictions; and funding for home repairs in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
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He and the others ticked off initiatives under Mr. Buttigieg: a small-business resource center on the West Side where minority residents are concentrated; the hiring of the city's first diversity officer; legal help for tenants facing evictions; and funding for home repairs in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
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The plan is part of a broader strategy, outlined in a 2000-page paper released by the city, to reduce the number of homeless people living in primary shelters by 2400,2000 over the next five years, employing prevention — fighting illegal evictions, for instance — and rehousing efforts.
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"If the shutdown continues, all these organizations will be left having to consider a spectrum of bad to terrible options, including staff layoffs and, in the worst-case scenario, evictions," said Diane Yentel, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy organization.
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If you are facing reduced hours or job loss and are worried about making your rent or mortgage payment this month, stay calm — President Trump said Wednesday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development will suspend "all foreclosures and evictions" through the end of April.
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The promise of more light rail and Little Tokyo's proximity to popular destinations like the Arts District are also increasing construction of market-rate housing that has led to the evictions of long-time residents, including Japanese American artists with ties to the Little Tokyo community.
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Related: We Visited the Lesser-Known French Migrant Camp That's Next in Line for Evictions The EU leaders agreed to the earlier target date for visa-free travel provided Ankara meets all the conditions including changing its visa policy towards Islamic states and introducing harder-to-fake biometric passports.
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GEOFFREY L. WERTIME, NEW YORK To the Editor: Your April 8 print edition had three articles about housing: the front-page story about evictions; an editorial, "America's Federally Financed Ghettos"; and "The Gendered Politics of New York's Emasculator in Chief," by Ginia Bellafante (Big City column), which discusses Gov.
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Related: We Visited the Lesser-Known French Migrant Camp That's Next in Line for Evictions According to statistics sent to VICE News by British volunteering organization Help Refugees and gathered by the Refugee Rights Data Project, 73 percent of migrants and refugees in the Jungle have experienced police violence.
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But as the weeks wore on, the chant came less and less often, as even the most optimistic of protesters realized that none of the officers they faced were going to break ranks and halt the pepper-spraying, the arrests, the teargas, and the evictions of protest camps.
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Taken together, the new laws — on everything from evictions to security deposits to rent caps for residents of mobile homes — represent a significant power shift away from landlords and cement New York's standing as a national leader of policies favorable to renters, of which there are 210 million statewide.
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For the purposes of this show, it evidently means one does not say that about 80,000 of the 92,000 Palestinian Bedouins were expelled in 1948 from the land they inhabited in what is now Israel, that their homes and livestock were destroyed, and that evictions and home demolitions continue today.
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I met David in the late 21924s in San Francisco, shortly after he had moved from New York, following a series of evictions from live/work spaces he had carved out in unheated storefronts in post-industrial semi-wastelands, before the real estate industry had given them names like Tribeca.
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But the lead-up to this summer's Olympics in Rio is starting to look more grueling than a 3,000 meter steeplechase: The event has been plagued by public health concerns about Zika, delayed construction, and forcible evictions from the favelas near the Olympic sites, all exacerbated by Brazil's deeper economic woes.
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The evictions were the most recent, and by far the largest, in a series of court-ordered expropriations that have shaken this tourist town and stained its image as a laid-back, eco-chic retreat that has become wildly popular among tourists, particularly those from the United States and Western Europe.
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Wages have not kept pace with rising rents, and the city's long-term initiatives — such as building more affordable housing, expanding rental assistance programs and increasing legal aid to tenants fighting evictions — have not kept up with the continuing surge of people who simply cannot afford to pay the rent.
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" Jereon Brown, a spokesman for HUD, responded to NBC by pointing out that the agency has never experienced evictions as the result of a shutdown, and noted that the remaining HUD staffers working during the shutdown were "looking at all accounts for funding to reinstate those contracts that don't exist now.
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Tep Vanny, who fought the evictions of thousands of residents from lakeside land in the capital Phnom Penh to make way for a luxury real estate project, was found guilty of inciting violence and assaulting security guards while trying to deliver a petition to Hun Sen on a land dispute.
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With a halt on evictions, renters will still owe money at a later date but won't be evicted from their homes for lack of payment, though it's also unclear how the masses of people who became unemployed because of the coronavirus would afford to pay back multiple months of rent.
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Vanny - who fought the evictions of thousands of residents from lakeside land in the capital Phnom Penh to make way for a luxury real estate project - was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Thursday for her role in a protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen's residence in 2013.
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Some here, including many of the business owners directly affected by the property seizures, say the evictions and their bitter fallout have exposed an ominous truth about Tulum: that this seemingly Edenic stretch of coastline on the Yucatán Peninsula is hardly immune to the kind of troubles bedeviling the rest of Mexico.
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The days leading to the Olympics have been marked by such a long and varied list of fiascos — including protests over forced evictions and complaints about both thefts and plumbing debacles at the new Olympic Village — that the British sports historian David Goldblatt ranks the preparations here among the worst in Olympic history.
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The group, which was concentrated in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, were stripped of their citizenship in 1982 and have been oppressed through forced labor, house evictions, restrictions on their movement, and outright violence from the military since the 1970s — leading the UN to describe them as one of the world's most persecuted minorities.
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"Not only will the moratorium be extended to avoid evictions due to unpaid mortgages, but its remit will also be extended so that the decree which comes out tomorrow includes more cases of vulnerability in many families," Iglesias said on Twitter, confirming what three government sources had told Reuters earlier on Monday.
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The tightening of rent regulations approved on Friday by the newly emboldened Democrats in the Legislature represents one of the most sweeping interventions by government in the New York City real estate market in decades, establishing new rules for millions of people on everything from rent increases to security deposits to evictions.
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"Not only will the moratorium be extended to avoid evictions due to unpaid mortgages, but its remit will also be extended so that the decree which comes out tomorrow includes more cases of vulnerability in many families," Iglesias said on Twitter, confirming what three government sources had told Reuters earlier on Monday.
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Construction of the dam was suspended in 2011 after a public outcry over evictions and expected environmental damage, which included the flooding of an area the size of Singapore, but villagers have not been allowed to return home, and Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has indicated it could still move ahead.
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It is of the opinion of many (myself included) that it is an intentional tactic by the government to allow places such as these — prime real estate that is largely occupied by poorer families — to fall into squalor, making forced evictions and the redevelopment process easier to swallow for the public at large.
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