Despite Moratorium, Bay Area Landlords Are “Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands” to Drive Tenants Out
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Kushner Companies Violated Multiple Laws in Massive Tenant Dispute, Judge Rules
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Los Angeles Cops Bring the Echo Park Tent Community to a Violent End
Dozens of police officers line up in front of Echo Park. Sarah Zimmerman Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Thursday evening, around 200 hundred people arrived at the corner of Sunset and Lemoyne in Los Angeles’…
Protecting Domestic Violence Survivors From Eviction Is Always Important—but Especially During COVID
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Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On a steamy Saturday in late June, Joyce McMillan stood outside the Brooklyn Family Court wearing a T-shirt that had “TRUTH OVER TRADITION” emblazoned across the front. A crowd of about…
Landlords Have Filed More Than 150,000 Eviction Notices Already. By January It Will Get Much Worse.
STRF/STAR MAX/IPx/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This piece was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C. A nationwide ban on evictions is the only thing standing between…