Management company owned by Jared Kushner files to evict hundreds of families as moratoriums....

[George II]

Source: Washington Post

Full Headline: Management company owned by Jared Kushner files to evict hundreds of families as moratoriums expire

By Jonathan O'Connell, Aaron Gregg and Anu Narayanswamy

November 5, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST

Westminster Management, an apartment company owned in part by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, has submitted hundreds of eviction filings in court against tenants with past due rent during the pandemic, according to interviews with more than a dozen tenants and a review of hundreds of the company’s filings.

A state eviction moratorium currently bars Maryland courts from removing tenants from their homes, and a federal moratorium offers renters additional protection. But like other landlords around the country, Westminster has been sending letters to tenants threatening legal fees and then filing eviction notices in court ― a first legal step toward removing tenants. Those notices are now piling up in local courthouses as part of a national backlog of tens of thousands of cases that experts warn could lead to a surge in displaced renters across the country as eviction bans expire and courts resume processing cases.

Many of the Westminster tenants facing eviction live on low or middle incomes in modest apartments in the Baltimore area, according to tenants. Some of them told The Washington Post they fell behind on rent after losing jobs or wages due to the pandemic.

Those facing eviction proceedings once courts begin hearing cases again include a nurse who struggled financially during the pandemic, health-care administrators and a single mother who is currently unemployed.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/05/kushner-evictions-pandemic-westminster-management/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics

[Mike 03]

1. Now that the voting is over, we'll probably be seeing a lot of

pure meanness from Trump & Friends.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

5. They're going to stop pretending to be nice (we've seen what the best of their nice is)

Not that it will matter to their avid supporters.

[machoneman]

10. ..and pure madness! Evil will reign for sure.

[CatLady78]

15. In fairness

They have not tried too hard to not seem mean..
It isn't as if they dissimulate much...they are pretty overt about what they are....

Pity you cannot evict the old creep from the WH.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. Agreed,

I don't think we have even begun to see how ugly these jerks can get......

To Jared's defense......you can't expect him to keep gathering U.S. Intelligence and going down to Saudi's and selling it for the money he needs to pay his mortgage, can you???????????

[Skittles]

23. oh like we haven't seen that up to now?

please

[bucolic_frolic]

2. And you find new paying tenants during a pandemic and economic collapse where, exactly?

[olegramps]

3. I have wondered the same thing. This could be an unmitigated disaster.

I wonder just what kind of condition that people who are evicted will leave the place in. I sure wouldn't want to owe these properties.

[soothsayer]

4. This

[cstanleytech]

11. Yup. A much better way to handle the problem would be to give the landlords a tax write off on

any real loss that is stretched out over the next 10 years.
That way the tax revenue for the country does not take a big hit.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Totally agree, tenants better off too, we need a government with real policies

that make sense, interventionist in the economy if needed, they've sure done it all along.

[sdfernando]

14. I think a lot of these are rent controlled units

getting the current tenants out allows them to raise the rent significantly. My guess is they are willing to take the hit for a while.

[BKDem]

18. Are you accusing Jared KenDoll of being a competent business person?

[oldsoftie]

6. The CDC moratorium was supposed to last the rest of the yr. Trust me, I know.

It took me a lot of gymnastics to get rid of someone using the CDC statement as an excuse. (Covid had not affected their income)

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Moscow Mitch did say we really didn't need another Relief package until the new year.

I know he's modified that but he's the reason we don't have one yet. Just think how much motivation he'll have now?

[iluvtennis]

8. trump crime family cares about nothing and no one -- only money. nt

[CrispyQ]

9. And creating a bigger homeless population makes America great again, how?

Oh, my bad! It's not about making America great, it's about making the Trumps rich.

Grifters, the whole fucking lot of them.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Trump read about Hoovervilles

and wants to out do them, to become the biggest and best in that category also......

[Illumination]

13. If anyone should be homeless, it's Jared & daddy's little girl!...

[dalton99a]

16. Disgusting evil piece of shit.

[skypilot]

17. Westminister?

Pretentious much?

[MarcA]

19. Maybe Biden can sign an Executive Order disallowing the evictions

for those not already evicted.

[NCjack]

20. Not until he is inaugurated at end of January

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Getting into the holiday spirit Jared?