Illegal Aliens renters on month to month $500.00 lease stop paying as a protest to "high" rent. The new owner of the building is forced to pay them a bribe of $2,500.00 to leave despite them owing thousands in UNPAID rent!!! The Illegals are now demanding more money to leave while heckling the owner that Cook County Sheriff will never evict them!
Landlord Francisco Macias owns the six-unit building at 2340 North California, which, along with a car wash, is slated to be demolished to make room for an upscale, 138-unit transit-oriented development by Savoy Development. The new building, located a short walk from the ‘L’ stop, would include 20 affordable units and, thanks to the city’s TOD ordinance, only 44 on-street parking spaces.
The market-rate studio apartments will rent for $1,200 a month while one-bedrooms will go for $1,400. Sayoy owner Enrico Plati has not disclosed the rents for the affordable units, but according to city guidelines, they must be affordable to households earning up to 60 percent of the Chicago region’s area median income, or $43,440 for a family of four.
However, Macias hasn’t sold the existing building to Plati yet because of a conflict with his tenants, who were on month-to-month leases (which have been shown to make tenants more susceptible to evictions), and paying only $500 a month in rent. After Macias gave them 30-day notices to leave the building, in late September residents, supported by the activists, vowed to fight the evictions and stopped paying rent, arguing that they needed more time to find housing in the increasingly expensive rental market of Logan Square. After going to court over the issue, the building’s remaining three families were given until January 15 to move, but they say they need more time to find housing and financial assistance (bribe) for the move.
After months of negotiation, the activists persuaded Plati to agree to the "relocation agreement" A BRIBE, which would give the families until March 1 to move, plus $2,500 per unit in financial assistance.
After the press conference, the crowd walked southeast on Milwaukee Avenue to the supposed site of Macias’ home in an attempt to deliver a giant letter asking the landlord to give his residents until March 1 to move. “We have been trying to reach [Macias] for weeks, but he’s been evasive,” said Lilly Lerner, an organizer with the Autonomous Tenants Union. If Macias refuses, the letter states, will begin an ‘eviction blockade,’ a non-violent act of civil disobedience Chicagoans have used before to prevent evictions by the Cook County sheriff’s department.
http://chi.streetsblog.org/2017/01/03/landlord-is-blocking-relocation-deal-for-tenants-displaced-by-tod-plan/
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