Chicago sheriff stops evictions

[DainBramaged]

BANKERS IN Chicago are angry with--of all people--Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.

Dart announced October 8 that his office would no longer forcibly remove residents from foreclosed properties, essentially imposing a moratorium on any mortgage-related evictions in the third-largest city in the U.S. and a surrounding county, with a total population of 5.3 million people.

Foreclosures are expected to reach a record high of 43,000 in Cook County this year, and the sheriff's department was expected to conduct 4,500 foreclosure-related evictions. Two thousand people are evicted from their homes every month in Cook County--as many as 500 as a result of a foreclosure.

The Cook County moratorium applies to foreclosed homes, condominiums and apartment buildings. Renters will still be evicted for reasons not related to foreclosures. Still, this is the first moratorium on such evictions in a major urban area--at least in living memory.

Dart cited the cases of renters unjustly thrown out of their apartments as a result of the mortgage crisis--at least a third of such foreclosure evictions affect renters, he said. "These mortgage companies only see pieces of paper, not people, and don't care who's in the building," Dart said.

http://socialistworker.org/2008/10/10/chicago-sheriff-stops-eviction

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. A sheriff with heart.

[undergroundpanther]

2. self delete double post

[undergroundpanther]

3. Wow a good Sheriff!

Thanks for standing up against the fucking financial abusers....
May Sekhmet empower you,Tom Dart in Maat..to be strong and keep you doing what is just!And may the bankers be dis-empowered and despised.

[Uncle Sinister]

4. There are lots of good sherrifs, good police, good judges, etc...

Just because someone has a position of power and authority doesn't mean they are the enemy. My dad retired as a Chief Probation Officer and he NEVER stopped looking for ways to get people "out" of the system.