Posted on 06/12/2020 12:23:45 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The owner of the vacant Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel opened its doors last week as a sanctuary for people trying to avoid the Black Lives Matter riots, to include left-wing activists and the homeless.
The hotel, which was heavily damaged during the riots, quickly became a homeless commune and community organizers launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise well over $100,000, with carloads of other donations pouring in, the Star Tribune reported.
But those who took refuge, reportedly over 200 people, are now being kicked to the curb as they’ve turned the hotel into a shantytown marked by squalor and rampant drug use....The owner of the vacant Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel opened its doors last week as a sanctuary for people trying to avoid the Black Lives Matter riots, to include left-wing activists and the homeless.
The hotel, which was heavily damaged during the riots, quickly became a homeless commune and community organizers launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise well over $100,000, with carloads of other donations pouring in, the Star Tribune reported.
But those who took refuge, reportedly over 200 people, are now being kicked to the curb as they’ve turned the hotel into a shantytown marked by squalor and rampant drug use....One of the organizers of the “Sanctuary Hotel,” public health nurse Rosemary Fister, told MPR News that some of the squatters intend to defy the eviction order.... “I don’t know if the owner has the power to evict us. I don’t know if the police in Minneapolis have the power to remove us from housing at this point,” she said. “This is a means of addressing historic, deep disparities and inequality. This is pragmatic and this has inspired a lot of people.”....
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This could make for a good reality TV show, sort of a RealWorld meets Survivor meets Naked and Afraid.
This is both funny and sad.
No sane individual should live in a county dominated by Democrats. The largest city takes down all the others, as it overwhelms the county positions.
The deserving poor are rarely just good people that have been exploited by the evil rich.
Most often if they are poor and stay poor it is for good reason.
I don’t know if the OWNER has the power to evict us.
Have stupider words every been said?
A new take on an old saw comes to mind:
Who are Trump supporters ? ....Liberals who are about to be mugged, or have their home/business trashed by rioters.
This squatter’s plan was predictable.
The property owner has to remember what kind of people he’s dealing with. Most of them feel they have nothing left to lose, so why not engage in some public footdragging to garner sympathy from other useful idiots?
Wherever the left gets power, poor homeless people disappear. And it's not because they decided it was time get a good factory job. They just ... disappear.
The silver lining is perhaps a new conservative has been born.
"Wherever the communists get power, poor homeless people disappear. And it's not because they decided it was time get a good factory job. They just ... disappear."
“.... as they’ve turned the hotel into a shantytown marked by squalor and rampant drug use....”
The underground roads
Are, as the dead prefer them,
Always torturous.
—Auden
Announce they must leave in one hour or lose everything. After one hour bring down the building for urban renewal. Then clear the site.
Not in San Fransicko.
There they live and defecate on the sidewalks.
Have stupider words every been said?
Not sure how you meant that but having been the owner of rental property you have to go to court to evict tenant if they are unwilling to leave.
It can be a time-consuming process starting with filling out government forms and ending with court hearings.
You can end up with a judge pleading with you to give the tenant more time.
In Leftist leaning states like California it could take a very long time to evict a tenant if they know how to game the system.
In New York or California someone of my means could never own rental property. If I had one dead beat renter, it would bankrupt me.
If you allow someone to stay in your building without a contract, they now have a claim to your home in court. If pressed, you may need substantial proof to eventually get them evicted.
I have a friend in Texas who had this happen to him with his home. It was his wife’s itinerant family.
No, really?
You would be surprised at what a landlord has to go through for an eviction. It's MASSIVELY expensive, time consuming, and not always successful, and the squatter is safe in the arms of local law enforcement, even while he is ripping out and selling all the fixtures and wiring, smashing holes in the walls, sh!tting on the carpets.
Why anyone would rent a house or apartment, these days, is beyond me. Ask a landlord.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The hotel, which was heavily damaged during the riots, quickly became a homeless commune and community organizers launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise well over $100,000, with carloads of other donations pouring in, the Star Tribune reported.
So it happened twice? One would think they would have learned a lesson after the first time....
You have to remember it is the article of the faith for socialist that the poor are the noble and the wealthy (producers) are the evil exploiters (with the exceptions of themselves because they are ‘woke’).
All the deserving poor need is a hand up and getting the capitalist boot off their throat.
Maybe this painful lesson will actually teach this socialist who he is dealing with but I doubt it. Ideologues are hard to educate no matter how painful the lesson.
I don’t know if the OWNER has the power to evict us.”
Actually he may be right. A rat city in a rat state, the owner may not have the power.
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