Bill de Blasio Quotes

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.

Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment.

We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.

Since 2016 we've been campaigning to improve the rights of renters, especially those on low incomes who are being ripped off by stratospheric admin fees, which puts them at risk of homelessness.

We don't think there are cases where people were evicted out of homes when they shouldn't have been.

The landlord may become a direct oppressor. He may care nothing for the people, and have no object but to squeeze the most that he can out of them fairly or unfairly. … In Ireland landlordism was tempered by assassination. Unfortunately the wrong man was generally assassinated. The true criminal was an absentee, and his agent was shot instead of him

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

First—to put an end to Rack-Renting, Eviction, and Landlord Oppression. Second—To effect such a radical change in the Land System of Ireland as will put it in the power of every Irish Farmer to become the owner, on fair terms, of the land he tills.

This was a process of infiltrating left-leaning organizations and spreading information about the members so that they would lose their jobs…. They caused anti-war activists to be evicted from their homes, disabled their cars, intercepted their mail. Wiretapped and bugged their conversations, prevented them from renting facilities, incited others to harass them, and disrupted peaceful organizations

Don’t believe them. Stay in your homes. They only want you to move out so that they can move in.

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition of poverty.

An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon.

These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.