Property dispute may leave (100 NOLA) tenants homeless

[KamaAina]

And this is on the side of the city that did not flood. Lovely.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1163665761255770.xml&coll=1

The Woodlands apartment complex has long been a dilapidated haven for illegal narcotics activity and violence. Built in 1964, the complex has changed hands several times, and no owner has been able to overcome its crumbling infrastructure and crime problems.

Tiara Matthews, a resident of the complex, said that when she was scrambling to find housing after the storm she originally wouldn't even consider The Woodlands because of the mounds of trash and lack of basic services there.

But she said Common Ground stepped in and cleaned up the facility, hiring residents to perform much of the work and making sure rents remained reasonable. One-bedroom apartments at the complex rent for $400 a month, and two-bedrooms rent for $500.

Matthews, who doesn't plan to move unless she's forced to, said she is dismayed by the recent push to evict residents, most of whom signed one-year leases this summer. She thinks it's unfair that residents will be penalized because of a dispute between Common Ground and (managing partner Anthony) Reginelli, and she wants the rest of the city to be aware of the injustice.

Common Ground has been doing some really great work down there.

http://www.commongroundrelief.org/

So help me, just last night, I dreamed that an N.O. pizzeria called, you guessed it, Reginelli's, wouldn't deliver to my office (in Honolulu :-) ); I couldn't tell whether it was because it was too far across town :eyes: or because the area where the office is is near homeless shelters and so forth. Well, now I know. :P