I was wrongfully evicted, displaced out of my public housing apartment at least 3 to 4 times due to worn out rusted, busted pipes. They left my apartment uninhabitable from the smell to black mold and bug infestation. Old rusted light poles fell down all around my resident placing.

Me and my family are in direct danger. I received a non compliance from management, stating to successfully repair these health and life-threatening matters. I was promised to be transferred to another apartment unit, but received an eviction notice instead.

In June 2023, I was locked out of the payment portal for my rent, and then promptly paid June’s rent with a money order on the 5th. Despite this, I was served an unlawful detainer for non-payment of rent on the 7th by the same person who accepted my payment. This was not the first issue I had with the management. In January 2023, I was charged twice for my rent portion. As a Section 8 tenant, my portion was small, with housing covering the majority. The second payment should have covered February’s rent, but the manager, who seemed to have a personal issue with me, failed to apply it correctly. This tension began when I had to involve the housing authority after being told I couldn’t move in on the agreed date because the manager was sick, leaving me homeless for an additional week despite having paid my deposit. I received no assistance or apology, but I let it go, grateful to finally have a place to live.

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I had to retire before I planned to due to health problems which meant a substantial drop in income. Social security just isn’t enough to live on. But an apartment became available in my mother’s building, the owner let me have it for $300 so I took it. It was all I could afford. It was in bad shape but I got to work papering and painting and making it a fairly nice place to live…until winter came. The heating system was horrendous. The entire downstairs froze–radiators, water, food–everything, except the mice (I’m phobic about mice). Upstairs it was 90+ degrees with the windows open. So for 10 years, I made due by often turning the furnace off at bedtime and hoping the two cats and I wouldn’t die of hyperthermia by morning. The outside temp was often far below zero. By the last year I was there I had no running water, no working range or refrigerator (but in winter it didn’t matter), and bad electricity that nearly started a potentially tragic fire. Camp toilets are no picnic if you must use one every day. But, still, it was a roof over my head. The city stepped in and I found a vacate order on the door. (more…)

I am 30 years old married with 6 kids. I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. I’ve always had well paying jobs but our credit is preventing us from getting any housing. So we’ve been hotel hopping but it’s not sustainable it takes all my paychecks and just my kids are so tired from this it’s been about a year we’ve been going through this cycle. I try to be strong for them as the man of the house but it’s just been breaking us down. I have such wonderful kids and a beautiful family everyday seeing them going through the struggle breaks my heart.

A year ago, in May 2023, while in the middle of my divorce, I lost my job. My ex husband also lost his job a month later, so he could no longer pay me child support. We were both previously making $90,000/yr, but in Georgia unemployment only paid us $1,200/month. My rent alone for my two bedroom apartment for my daughters was $2,000/month. Unemployment ran out after 3 months, and it took me a total of 11 months to find work again.

The apartments weren’t willing to take partial payments, and in all honesty, I don’t really know how I would have been able to pay them anything. Now I am working again, and it has been the absolute hardest experience trying to find a clean, non roach-infested and safe place for my two daughters and me. Right now I’m paying almost $4,000/month for us to stay in a furnished hotel. Many landlords and property management companies won’t even look past my eviction to actually hear my story.

I am sharing with you this concern for myself and my three babies. I am a 27-year-old mother of 3 children, and I’m also juggling school. The past four years I have resided in a rental house in Pascagoula, and in those four years I have met my landlord one time and that was at the time of signing the lease. I have never been a problem. When things break I fix them myself instead of calling my landlord (he lives 15 hours away). At the end of May, I contacted my landlord to make him aware of the mold, and he ignored the repairs that affected our health and well-being; he disregarded requests to repair the property to make it more livable. (more…)

A few years ago when COVID-19 had started, it was spreading like wildfire everywhere. It was awful that so many things were closed due to COVID. It was even worse staying in one small apartment in the Bronx, New York. So the only solution that my family had was to go visit some relatives and we did. We went to Indiana. (more…)

We had lived in a location we rented from a man I worked for 30 years ago. We remodeled the place as it was uninhabitable. We had zero issues for 5 years. Then he sold it to his family and his nephew came to evict us. 18 months later, after being put through the worst treatment you can imagine, my family is now homeless. Not because we didn’t pay our rent or violated anything, but because no one would represent us and the court is biased against pro se litigants.

We were put through all of the self help eviction programs and more. Not one group would help. No one would take our case. We fought it best we could with a biased judge, who in the end set our emergency hearing eviction 2 days after the execution of the eviction by the sheriff’s office. As we have been told, this was a violation of the judge’s ethics code. (more…)

In 2021, I made almost $100,000 that year. In 2022, I was fired from my job for an act I didn’t commit. Since then, I’ve lost everything, including my home of eight years. I’m now homeless. The shelters for homeless people are dirty and mostly don’t accept people and treat people inhumanely. I’ve been thinking about suicide frequently. Tried calling my town about assistance but get nowhere. I need help with housing and employment.

After 10 years of renting our home in San Pedro, CA, there came a new buyer to live in the front house while we stood in our back house. Well it was a nightmare since he came to live in the house. We never expected someone could be so ignorant and cruel. He had a drinking problem, which ended up with me getting a restraining order on him. Out of retaliation he evicted us. We had no attorney, but we had our facts in line to go to trial. (more…)