#evicted

[saywhat-politics]

Joanne Erickson’s story shows the looming challenges for millions of seniors struggling with health issues, an unforgiving housing market and little or no retirement savings.

When I first met her, Joanne Marie Erickson had not left her apartment in weeks and she was just days away from being evicted from her home of 23 years. She sat on a tattered couch, while her cat Muriel wandered around her cluttered living room. She was alone, overwhelmed. “I think I’m falling apart,” she said.

I had hoped, naively it turns out, that my reporting would be enough to help her get the assistance she needed and find stable housing. But long waitlists, leads that went nowhere and promises of help that went unfilled continually frustrated her efforts.

She was evicted in February and died in May, while homeless, just days short of her 71st birthday. Erickson’s tragic end — homeless despite a lifetime spent caring for others — illustrates the urgent and complex challenge of providing support for aging Americans, many of whom will outlive their savings. For the millions relying solely on Social Security, a modest benefit at best, survival in high-cost cities like Los Angeles can be untenable. Layer on the inevitable decline of the body and, for some, the mind, and the prospect for many older Americans grows even grimmer.

Erickson’s life unraveled steadily for years — and then, after she was evicted, all at once.

When she was in her mid-60s, she left her last steady job as an occupational therapist.

She began falling in public places, at CVS, at the grocery store — her frailty the result of post-polio syndrome, which leads to the weakening of joints and muscles.

She struggled with depression, was unable to keep her home in order and, according to a neighbor, suffered a nervous breakdown early in the pandemic.

Then came the eviction notice. She sat in a Santa Monica courtroom in January, without a lawyer, sick to her stomach, as the judge ruled in favor of her landlord.

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on the path to rewatching their respective series

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[federer7]

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

Photo: Arthur Rothstein

[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

[whilereadingandwalking]

Matthew Desmond’s Evicted was one of the most impactful nonfiction reads for me of the last decade. Poverty, by America is his newest, a polemic against the inequality in the United States that exposes the causes, takes down common assumptions and myths about poverty, and then gives us the tools to fight it. Desmond’s writing is accessible and his arguments and explanations are very easy to follow.

Some pain points I did not know about: for example, a huge amount of existing government aid simply never makes it to poor people because it is difficult or daunting to apply or tough to actually receive. Others I did: he shows that actually, rich and high-middle-class families get far more government aid than poor or working class families do, and makes the case for changing that and also for making corporate and upper-class people pay their share of taxes. He draws from history to show us that these things are possible and all have precedents. And he points out the underlying issues of racism and reproductive justice that disproportionately impact and isolate poor people.

This is a powerful book not simply because of the knowledge it imparts but because it is so actionable and reasonable. It calls us out: it’s not true that we won’t have to give anything up to solve poverty. Rich and middle-class people absolutely will, and we should be willing to do it. He argues for integration of our communities, the ending of exclusionary zoning, taxing the rich, and making it easier to organize. On an individual level, he gives plenty of useful, actionable items: Show up to local community meetings and push for affordable and inclusive zoning. Use your dollars to only support companies doing right by their workers (and check that your retirement or investment funds do the same). And refuse the ‘scarcity diversion’ myth that there’s not enough for us all, and refuse the myth that poor people are in any way intrinsically different than you are.

All around, an extremely powerfully argued, readable, and actionable book that should be a must-read for people looking to build intersectional communities and those wondering how America got so desperately unequal.

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: May 17…

When Finn and Jake get kicked out of their own home by a vampire named Marceline, who reveals herself to be the previous owner of the treehouse, the duo must find a new home across the land for them to reside. “Evicted” premiered on this day, 15 Years Ago.

[agere-fics]

hello!! my family needs help!

unfortunately life is very unkind and we're getting evicted. if you'd like to donate to help us find appropriate housing, please visit my ko-fi !! it's under "littlefishblr".

my whole family, including myself, are disabled so lots of our money goes towards medical bills. and with rent increasing, we have nothing left over. please help if you are fortunate enough!

we don't want to surrender our animals (two cats) so we must find help somewhere that'll let us bring our pets. which is why the money would be incredibly helpful since most shelters don't allow pets but some hotels do!

thank you for your kindness.

[90smovies]

[octal-codes]

We're getting evicted

We're getting evicted from our apartment, apparently because of damages that my mom's ex made.

I'm disabled, because of that, I need constant care 24/7. Not having a house is dangerous to my health.

We don't have the funds to get a new apartment, so I'm calling for your help. I have a Ko-fi, which is the primary place you can donate.

Anything helps, if not monetarily, please share my message.

[blackblooms]

In the 12th episode of Adventure Time, Finn and Jake encounter their most terrifying and monstrous foe yet....a landlord...

[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

[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✨

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[moneymakemecum]

Anybody willing to give me $200 so I can pay rent?

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Marion Stevens naps in a chair on the sidewalk, surrounded by her belongings, after she was evicted from her apartment on 52nd Street on July 12, 1947. She is oblivious to the noise from the numerous night clubs on the street.

Photo: DP for the Associated Press