#evicted

[federer7]

Evicted sharecropper’s wife. Butler County, Missouri, November 1939

Photo: Arthur Rothstein

#Arthur Rothstein #butler county #missouri #november #1939 #sharecropper #Evicted

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Some of the mothers and children evicted from four tenements on East 79th Street find shelter and beds for the night at the American Labor Party headquarters at 1484 1st Avenue, March 2, 1950. The families were ousted from tenements to make room for upscale housing.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #Marty Lederhandler #eviction #tenements #March 2 #2 March #American Labor Party #evicted #gentrification

[centuriespast]

ZICHY, Mihály Illustration to Imre Madách's The Tragedy of Man: In the Paradise (Scene 2) 1887 Charcoal drawing, 100 x 70 cm Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest

#evicted

[relatablepicturesoffinnmertens]

#adventure time #atimers #finn mertens #finn the human #season 1 #evicted #also marcy

[ricky-toon]

Since it's implied Marceline is still around 1000 years in the future, I could see her pulling the same thing she did to Finn and Jake to Shermy and Beth since they are living in her old house. Initially, I thought she could kick them out too but I think it'd be funnier if instead, Marcy would just squat their place and mildly be an inconvenience to them xD

#my art #adventure time #marceline abadeer #marceline the vampire queen #shermy #beth the pup princess #Betony Burrito “Beth” Jakson IV #evicted

[belongsinthetrash]

Heya hiya, folks of all yolks, I have decided that I should finally NOT disappear from all my mutuals with no warning. A scathing take, I know, but it's my brain and I decide what course of action it takes.

Anyways, silliness aside, I do want to pull everyone's attention to a GoFundMe of a mutual-in-law's that needs some help towards it. Their boyfriend's mother has just kicked him out of his house with no notice and they need some financial aid to off-set the extra person that was forced to be evicted. I hope that this boost will get some kindness towards it, even if I have been MIA.

#financial aid #evicted #gofundme

[st-just]

Legal aid to the poor has been steadily declining since the Reagan years and was decimated during the Great Recession. The result is that in many housing courts across the country, 90 percent of landlords are represented by attorneys, and 90 percent of tenants are not.

-Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Mathew Desmond

#quite #history #sociology #Evicted #Mathew Desmond

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Jobless Still Guard Home From Eviction,” Toronto Star. November 29, 1932. Page 20. ---- Body of 200 Organized on ‘Business Basis’ --- ‘We are now working in two shifts and have got it down to a business-like basis now,’ said one of the unemployed who are guarding the home of G. Bennett, 1091 Glencairn Ave., against eviction by the county sheriff for non-payment of mortgage interest.

‘A hundred men spend five hours of the morning at the house and another hundred come at about noon and spend about five hours on guard. Those who are relieved are ready for call in case of trouble.’

Reminded that the sheriff had declared that he was considering another try after his unsuccessful attempt last week to evict the family, the group of unemployed declared they were ready for every contingency, even an unlawful attempt at night.

#toronto #eviction #resisting evictions #evicted #unemployed #unemployed association #unemployed protest #unemployed workers' association #great depression in canada #working class struggle

[lunamikin]

guess what?

the owner of the hostel me and my gf are currently living and working in, for almost a year now, decided to threaten to throw us out…

so my gf is currently an equal partner with the owner of this hostel we live in, she does all the contability and basically runs the place by herself, while the owner is in the other side of the globe, and is not here to see the day to day things…

but the owner is not treating her as an equal partner and is being very racist and homophobic twoards us (this has been happening for a while but now things got unmanageable)…

the owner still demands things of her as if my gf was still just an employee and not an equal in the decision making of things (she started as manager but then they decided to make her partner). the thing is: she doesn’t pay any salary to my gf bc they “share the profits”

however, before the partnership, my gf had a fixed salary. in the proposal of the partnership, she was promised to make a little more money by the end of the year, when is the most demand and where we receive more guests here, so it was an amazing opportunity for us (to try and make some savings), to stay here in the slow part of the year (when there’s amost no guests), getting paid less than when she had a fixed salary. we believed we’d have a return for the months we spent here *not getting paid*

and now that the high demand of the year is getting closer, and right when we were about to start getting something in return after two months of not getting paid and having to deal with all the expenses from the hostel, having absolutely no profit in the end of those 2 months, the owner decided the partnership is “not working anymore” when the reality is that if it wasn’t for my gf, this place simply would deteriorate very fast bc it’s in the middle of the atlantic forest, and nature doesn’t wait.

she clearly doesn’t see my gf as an equal and still sees her as an employee rather than her equal partner. she’s clearly just wanting to exploit someone as long as it’s convenient to her, and now that the profits will start showing up, she doesn’t want the partnership anymore…

it’s rather sordid bc she’s clearly just trying to find anything to justify the dismantling of the partnership.

also she was supposed to pay the last salary (two months ago) to my gf and she still hasn’t

it’s ridiculous and outrageous

exploiting someone for the months when she doesn’t have money to pay a salary is very easy, but then when it comes the time to share the actual profits that’ll come, then suddenly there’s something wrong with the partnership…

it’s very suspicious to say the least…

anyways, moral of the story is: we wanna get out of here, as you might’ve guessed. this situation is very difficult and we just haven’t left yet bc we don’t have a place to stay other than here nor have the resources to leave.

the situation has become very uncomfortable and idk what else to do… the plan is to make enough money to buy a car so we can at least have a place to sleep while we don’t find another place to volunteer in.

also my gf can work as an uber if we have a car

so i made this goal to try and make this money, so we can buy a car and get out of here ASAP bc we’re DONE being exploited… this should help us start over…

my ko-fi page is in my bio, in case you wanna help us out! thank you!✨

i’m so angry about all of this… it’s unbelievable that someone has the nerve to do something like this and treat people like this, and still think they’re on the right side…

anyways, share this post if you wanna help us out! we really need it… and i’d love to draw something for you!! thank you✨

#drawing #digital art #art #commissions open #help #evicted #exploitation #goal #help us get a car

[podracerbarrelroll]

I finished reading Evicted, and it made me think a lot about the concept of landlords and work. The argument from landlords that their job is property maintenance, vs. the claim that maintaining a property you own isn't a job at all.

Both of the landlords that feature prominently in the book manage their own properties. The author describes one that traveled around on the first of the month to collect rents from tenants, how she kept accounts, how frequently she had to appear in eviction court. How her husband quit his job to manage properties for her and spent his time renovating units, finding people who would work for cheap, and getting them ready for move-in. This encompassed their whole lives, and probably would not have left time for wage labor, even if it was something either one of them were inclined to do.

And they did have bills, taxes and fees they had to pay the city. The author describes a bill for over $11K one time, for $20K another time that almost cleared out the landlord's account before the first of the month rolled around and gave her more money. If they let the rent slide, they would be in the red.

The author also described how this landlord shirked on maintenance, how she rented units that were definitely not up to code to desperate people, how she evicted a woman who asked to have a broken window fixed because the woman's mother called the inspector. By doing as little as possible to maintain units and charging as much as possible, this landlord and her husband were able to make a killing off of poor, desperate people. They had a second house in Florida and took vacations to Jamaica while their tenants lived in apartments full of bugs and without appliances and with sinks and tubs that wouldn't drain. A young woman living in one of these units had never seen Lake Michigan, despite living 30 minutes away by bus.

I think the landlord and her husband would claim that they put a lot of work into their properties, that it's a job, and honestly, I think they're right, and I don't think that matters. What matters is the kind of work they chose. Before the landlord became a landlord, she was a teacher. One of her tenants was a former student. She decided to leave this work and become a landlord instead, a lifestyle that allowed her to keep a nice home she never had to worry about losing, with a fridge full of take-out bags in a kitchen she and her husband were almost never home to actually cook in. It allowed her to pay for vacations and second homes and stay at the casino until 4am.

It required putting her boot on other people's necks. Because if she lifted it even a little, if she let someone breathe, those bills in the tens of thousands would come for her, and she wouldn't be able to pay. But she chose that, she put herself there. She made the choice of the property owner, the choice of the capitalist, who may spend long hours managing a workforce or a business, but ultimately lives better by taking from others.

The work landlords choose is the work of exploitation, which makes them the enemy of the working class and the renting class in the same manner as capitalists. I find that a better and more important distinction than how we should categorize the nature of their 'work'.

#evicted #landlords #tenant rights #similarly: the police #I wouldn't say they don't work but I would say they aren't working class #their function is to control the working class so capitalists (and landlords) may continue exploitation for profit #this book also made me think a lot about how easy it is to lose everything and how hard it is to rebuild #it will make you look around where you live and try to picture what you would take if you could only fit it into your car #or worse if you could only take what you could carry #how much you'd lose

[elite-clearance]

Professionals you can trust

#proffesional #trust #recycling #recycle #charity #evicted #scrap metal #warehouse storage #storage solutions #storage #framingham #respect #value #support #clearance #clearing #moving #removal #removals #house removal #land removal #shop removal #shop clearance #house clearance #house clearing #suffolk #norfalk #essex #london #cambridge

[relatablepicturesoffinnmertens]

#adventure time #finn mertens #finn the human #season 1 #evicted #also jake

[trippercrazy]

Jeff Tweedy from Wilco

#jeff tweedy #wilco #singer #alternative rock #music #Jesus etc #Impossible Germany #California Stars #evicted #albums #yankee hotel foxtrot #summerteeth #Mermaid Avenue #being there #cousin #uncle tupelo #anodyne #no depression #author

[strwberriehore]

Got note on my door, less than a week left in my apartment before they kick me out

#eviction #evicted #homeless

[st-just]

During its period of rapid urbanization, America imported the European model. Colonial proprietors adopted the institutions and laws of England's landed gentry, including the doctrine of absolute liability for rent, which held tenants unequivocally responsible for payments even in the event of fire or flood. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, America's poor lived in cellars, attics, cattle sheds, and windowless rooms that held multiple families. Some slums were cut off from municipal services or local wells, so residents begged for water in other parts of town. Rents continued to rise as living conditions deteriorated. Soon, many families could not afford their housing. When this happened, landlords could summon the 'privilege of distress', which entitled them to seize and sell tenants' property to recoup lost profits, a practice that continued well into the twentieth century.

-Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Mathew Desmond

#quote #history #sociology #Evicted #Mathew Desmond

[shadecypherus]

Hi everyone! I just wanted to put the word out about a GoFundMe that my friends started to help my friend Crow, who was recently suddenly evicted from his home and now is trying to get housing assistance. He's been stonewalled by housing services and is currently being drained of his savings by motel hopping. If you have a few bucks to spare, I'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-crow-obtain-housing

#gofundme #evicted