Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People

[stopbush]

The tRump economy in action. How fucked up is this?:

During a time of great economic and general hardship, Civvl aims to be, essentially, Uber, but for evicting people. Seizing on a pandemic-driven nosedive in employment and huge uptick in number-of-people-who-can't-pay-their-rent, Civvl aims to make it easy for landlords to hire process servers and eviction agents as gig workers.

Helena Duncan, a Chicago-based paralegal who also participates in housing activism, saw a Craigslist post from Civvl while searching for jobs. The ad alarmed her.

"It's fucked up that there will be struggling working-class people who will be drawn to gigs like furniture-hauling or process-serving for a company like Civvl, evicting fellow working-class people from their homes so they themselves can make rent," she told Motherboard.

In its Craigslist ads, posted across the country, Civvl explains the opportunity plainly: "There is plenty of work due to the dismal economy."

"Unemployment is at a record high and many cannot or simply are not paying rent and mortgages," the ads state. "We are being contracted by frustrated property owners and banks to secure foreclosed residential properties."


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep435n/gig-economy-company-launches-uber-but-for-evicting-people?fbclid=IwAR2iv6_LVimz_5XlvrH7w1W3FdsH_g6toRPrkJgQHtzn8w2Od4mK6mefzTs

[mr_lebowski]

1. When we evict Trump I'm sure he'll start up his own version, a business like this is right up his

alley.

After all, the entire purpose of 'Trump University' was to teach people to make money buying and flipping foreclosed homes after the Republican crash of 2008.

[Solly Mack]

2. That's sickening.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Fucking assholes.

Capitalism needs to go away.

Just because an opportunity to exploit people exists you don't have to take that opportunity. You can be a empathic moral person and say no.

[Initech]

4. Uber Repo: Coming soon to an apartment complex near you!

Fuck you Trump!

[Calculating]

5. Well, what are landlords supposed to do if people aren't paying the rent?

Landlords have bills to pay too, they can't afford to have non paying tennents taking up their rental properties.