Houston Parents Evicted, Separated From Their Toddler After Landlord Rejects Rent Relief

[TexasTowelie]

Phillip Tilley and Christine Outhouse are parents to 18-month-old Parker.


A Houston couple was evicted and subsequently separated from their 18-month-old daughter after their landlord refused to accept rent relief money from the city of Houston and Harris County.

Phillip Tilley and his partner Christine Outhouse applied to the Houston-Harris County rent relief program, hoping it would keep them and their 18-month-old daughter Parker from losing their apartment at the Arbors on Westheimer Road, a sprawling 360-unit complex.

Their application was approved. Their landlord received a check for nearly $7,000. But the landlord decided to return the money and evict the family anyway, according to court transcripts.

Tilley and his daughter were watching a movie when around a dozen constables and movers came through the door on a hot morning at the end of July.

"I had no idea what was going on,” Tilley said. “I've got her just like, clenched to me as hard as she possibly could. She was scared out of her mind. I was scared."

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/2021/08/30/407237/after-their-landlord-rejected-rent-relief-money-houston-parents-are-evicted-and-separated-from-their-toddler/

[jpak]

1. Outhouse?

WTF

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2. The cruelty is the point. Full stop.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

Surprised they are white, though. Hope they can find some relief.

For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would live in Texas at this point.

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4. Job. Period. When I retire I'm GTHO!!!

[2naSalit]

5. Yikes.

I am now retired but when I was working at a traveling kind of job, I had to go to or through Texas many times, was not thrilled about it, ever. And I've been all along the southern border, up through the middle and out the panhandle and all the way across on I-10 from El Paso to Beaumont/Port Arthur. Always felt like I had to watch over my shoulder looked forward to getting to someplace else when my business there was done.

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6. I actually lived in a "sundown town" for two years..

When I found out what that meant I was appalled. Gone ASAP.

[2naSalit]

7. Right?

The only places in the southern US that I have lived is San Diego and for a few months Key West. Other than that I stay well north of I-80, often closer to I-90.

I can't handle the heat or the social environment.