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Phoenix (AFP) - Wearing a bulletproof vest and with a gun strapped to his waist, Constable Lennie McCloskey opens his folder and looks through the court orders: eleven evictions to be carried out today. "It's a slow day" in Maricopa County, Arizona, he says. Maricopa is home to Phoenix, one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, a place where rents have skyrocketed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving an ever-increasing number of people in trouble. "I typically do between 19 and 25 (evictions) a day," said McCloskey, one of 26 such officers in Maricopa. Much of the Un...
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Dana Point (United States) (AFP) - Multi-million-dollar homes crouched on a California clifftop got a little bit closer to the edge when a landslide brought tons of rock and soil crashing into the sea. Heart-stopping pictures show three mega-mansions in the city of Dana Point apparently now perilously close to the Pacific Ocean following the rockfall. But astonishingly, the properties are still livable, with engineers assuring owners that their homes are in no danger of sliding into the sea. Lewis Bruggeman, who owns one of the homes in the tony enclave south of Los Angeles, told a local broad...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The house where Jeff Bezos founded online shopping mammoth Amazon is up for sale, offering one lucky buyer the chance to own a piece of internet history. Bezos and his then-wife MacKenzie Scott were renting the single-story, three-bedroom home near Seattle in the mid 1990s when they began selling books online from the garage. Amazon lore holds that the garage was outfitted only with a computer, basic office supplies and a desk constructed from a door bought from a home improvement center. Originally the company shipped only books -- Amazon says the first one was titled "Flu...
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New York (AFP) - In mid-May, Paula Sevilla and her roommates joined the many New Yorkers suffering under the city's crushing housing crisis, which has seen rents soar in the pandemic's wake. The tenants argued their landlord had violated rules requiring sufficient notice but ultimately were told if they would have to pay an additional $800 per month if they wanted to stay at their Brooklyn rental. Sevilla and one roommate began a grueling search for new housing in a market that over the past year has spawned countless apartment search horror stories. After two months of searching, some 30 apar...
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Miami (AFP) - Miami resident Maria Ruby learned last month that her rent will shoot up 65 percent in February. She cannot afford it and does not know where to go. Her plight illustrates an unexpected effect of the coronavirus pandemic: Miami is seeing some of the highest housing cost increases anywhere in the United States. Metropolitan Miami was already a lure even before Covid, with its warm weather, white sand beaches and absence of state -- though not federal -- income tax. It is a sophisticated, cosmopolitan city that is attractive to European and Latin American investors. But the pandemi...
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New York (AFP) - The deaths of almost a dozen New Yorkers who could not escape their homes during flash flooding has exposed the perils of living in the city's often-dangerous basements. With rents in the Big Apple among the most expensive in the world, below-ground units offer an affordable option for many low-income residents. But the cramped, sometimes windowless apartments can come with risks as Wednesday night's record rainfall painfully highlighted. Of the 13 people killed in New York City, 11 were found dead in basements, police said, as rapidly rising water levels left them with no way...
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Washington (AFP) - Eviction protections expired Sunday for millions of Americans who could face homelessness within days, triggering a scramble to unlock billions in stalled rental aid and recriminations in Washington. Renters had been shielded from eviction for nearly a year as part of a government moratorium intended to keep people in their houses during the Covid-19 pandemic. But lawmakers have failed to extend those expiring protections and only $3 billion in aid has reached households out of the $25 billion allotted to states and localities in early February. "We should be compassionate. ...
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New York (AFP) - New York City is to build a homeless shelter in an expensive Manhattan area known as "Billionaire's Row" following a lengthy legal battle. Mayor Bill de Blasio's government announced in 2018 that it planned to turn the former Park Savoy Hotel on West 58th Street into a shelter for 150 people. A coalition of residents sued to stop the move, but on Thursday an appeals judge rejected their objections, paving the way for the proposal to proceed. "(We) look forward to opening our doors at this location as soon as possible," Isaac McGinn, a social services department spokesperson sa...
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Chicago (AFP) - Council members in Evanston city outside Chicago voted Monday in favor of giving funds to Black residents as a form of reparations for housing discrimination -- the first city in the United States to take such action. The plan, passed with an 8-1 vote, will distribute $400,000 of a $10 million fund generated by marijuana tax revenue, to up to 16 families to use toward housing needs. For Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, the architect of the Evanston Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program and Program Budget, it was an "initial first step" after years of discussion and input fro...
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New York (AFP) - It apparently costs $1,650 a month to rent but doesn't have a toilet or an oven: TikTok users are going crazy over a video captioned New York's "worst apartment ever." Its exact address is a mystery, and you won't find it listed on any rental sites, but that hasn't stopped a video of the tiny studio from being viewed 21 million times. The clip has gone viral since real estate agent Cameron Knowlton posted it on his New York City Realtor TikTok account last week. Captioned "Worst Apartment Ever NYC !!!," the video shows a single room with no bathroom, no stove, no freezer, one...
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