Eviction News
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Cape Town -
South African police on Wednesday arrested around 100 foreign nationals occupying an office building in Cape Town as part of a sit-in protest against xenophobia, later releasing many of them.
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Notre-dame-des-landes -
French police battled Tuesday to evict anti-airport protesters and the creators of an alternative anti-capitalist settlement in western France during a second day of clashes.
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French anti-capitalist activists clashed with riot police at burning barricades Monday during a huge security operation to clear a rural protest camp at the site of an abandoned airport project.
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Over 2,000 French police officers took part Monday in the expulsion of the last holdouts from an anti-capitalist camp at the site of an abandoned airport project near the western city of Nantes.
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Rome -
Italy is set to issue new guidelines on refugee evictions after the UN criticised the ousting of hundreds of people from a Rome building last week, local media reported Saturday.
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Burlingame -
A 97-year-old California woman suffering from cancer is facing eviction from the home she has lived in for 66 years after her longtime landlord died and the property's new owner ordered her to vacate within 60 days.
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San Francisco -
An iconic waterfront restaurant that evoked a simpler time in San Francisco's colorful history filed for bankruptcy last Wednesday morning, just in time to head off eviction by the city's sheriff's department.
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Madrid -
In the latest in ongoing evictions in Spain, Spanish police arrested six people Friday who were trying to stop the eviction of a family with three children in Madrid, the youngest only 20 days old, from their home.
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Diane Stretton, 64, worked as a live-in nanny and worked well for a while. Eventually she decided to stop working for them but continued staying in one of their rooms, allegedly without working or paying.
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News alleging that Brazil displaced thousands from their homes has come to light. Around 250,000 people may have forcibly evicted from their homes if this is true.
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Barcelona -
Anti-eviction activists blocked Wednesday the entrance to 12 branches of Spain's Banco Popular bank, which they accuse of not doing enough to prevent struggling mortgage holders from losing their homes.
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Pekin -
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," or so the saying goes, and one man in Illinois found that for him that was true when he kicked his woman out of the family home.
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Azuara -
A family traveled to Azuara in 2011 to stay in their holiday home in the town, only to find that the bank had evicted them and most of their belongings were gone. It seems the bank had cleared the wrong home and are still refusing to reimburse them.
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Barcelona -
A group of around 43 immigrants, many of them Nigerians and Senegalese, have locked themselves into a Barcelona, Spain church after they were evicted from warehouses in the city on Wednesday. The immigrants had lived there for two years.
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Newark -
Eight-time Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has two weeks to pay $504,000 in back taxes, if she doesn't she faces a potential three years in prison for tax evasion, a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey said Monday afternoon.
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Pamplona -
In 2012, more than 50,000 families were evicted from their homes in Spain for nonpayment of their rent or mortgage. Then the suicides began. Now locksmiths in Pamplona say, no more - they will not assist with evictions.
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Bilbao -
53-year-old Amaia Egaña was to be evicted from her home in Barakaldo, Bilbao, Spain. Rather than face homelessness, she jumped to her death from her balcony.
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McDonald's is suing the City of Milan for 24 million Euros in damages after the city authorities evicted the fast-food chain from a shopping arcade, a major tourist attraction, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
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Fayetteville -
Putting past conflicts aside, Occupy Atlanta members and police stood side by side on Monday in a show of support for retired Atlanta Police Detective Jaqueline Barber.
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Karlsruhe -
During an eviction, the gunman took several people hostage, including the bailiff. Police believed that one person was dead.
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Toronto -
The Canadian Air & Space Museum (formerly the Toronto Aerospace Museum) is one of the favorite spots within Downsview Park but it's days may be numbered.
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Atlanta -
A 103-year-old woman and her daughter will not have to leave their home after all. In what has been an ongoing battle for the last few years, Deutsche Bank had planned to remove the two women from their home on Nov. 29.
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Los Angeles -
Police conducted a sweep of the Occupy Los Angeles encampment two days after a final eviction deadline was imposed. Nearly 300 arrests were made.
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Los Angeles -
A deadline was announced for the Occupy Los Angeles encampment to vacate the premises in front of City Hall. The final eviction, however, has been postponed in an effort to keep the peace and to encourage people to leave at their own free will.
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Toronto -
As the midnight hour approached the protesters at St. James Park remained after the eviction order came into effort. There were conflicting reports as to if the police was going to take action through the night.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed some instant sanctions to be used against the rioters. It would have been better if he had thought before opening his mouth.
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Toronto -
The University of Toronto has given a high school for academically gifted students and future teachers a notice of eviction. The University of Toronto Schools will have until 2021 to find a new location and move.
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Atlanta, GA - Fans of Joe Patten, the “Phantom of the Fox,” are voicing their support for this beloved 83-year-old who has lived in an apartment in the Fox Theatre for more than 30 years and is now facing a new lease that may force him to move.
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The Loveland Church in Victorville, California may be without a home in the first weeks of February. The church is currently renting from National Cinemark who has agreements throughout California with other churches.
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A Rhode Island judge today authorized the state’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to arrange for the care of some 136 animals left behind at the Bonniedale Farm in Glocester, RI, following the owner’s eviction Monday.
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Eviction Image
Eviction with state or federal orders can happen quickly as we saw in New Orleans. However private eviction between tenants and landlords can be a lengthy and difficult process. Infrogmation of New Orleans
Immigrants were evicted from two warehouses in Barcelona, Spain and have locked themselves into a church. Video screengrab
Protesters against the suicide of Amaia Egaña due to eviction. Video screen capture
An NYPD officer stands guard near Zuccotti Park in NYC Dan Nguyen
Protesters against the suicide of Amaia Egaña due to eviction. Video screen capture
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