The Republicon recession leads to record evictions [View All]

[SpiralHawk]

From today's NYT, another sad tale about the fruit of 'conservative' republiconomics:


In South Florida, Eviction Spares Few

By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 4, 2008

MIAMI — In a decade handling evictions for the Miami-Dade County Police Department, Albert Fernandez has run across a middle-class father bankrupted by his daughter’s cancer treatment; an old woman scammed by a gambling husband; and countless families perpetually on the edge of poverty.

Albert Fernandez of the Miami-Dade police serving eviction papers last month in Miami. “People of all walks of life are getting evicted,” Officer Fernandez said.

But he has never turned out as many people as he does now.

It used to take a day or two for officers to get to an address after tenants received a notice to leave. Now, with evictions up by roughly a third over last year, Miami-Dade’s backlog is around two weeks, sometimes longer...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/us/04evict.html?th&emc=th