Read more eviction stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/11830/eviction.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:43:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69967/french-roust-migrant-jungle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrench riot police stormed in today to clear an immigrant camp known as "the Jungle," the Guardian reports. The camp in woodlands outside Calais was home to hundreds of asylum seekers living in squalid conditions. Most were men and boys from Afghanistan seeking to cross to Britain on trucks going...http://www.newser.com/story/69967/french-roust-migrant-jungle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 3:36:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63414/marshals-seize-ruth-madoffs-penthouse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUS Marshals seized Ruth Madoff’s $7 million Manhattan penthouse today after she made a deal to give it up last week, the New York Post reports. Madoff “left voluntarily and in an orderly manner to which all sides agreed,” said her lawyer. “We’re not here to load up (the apartment’s...http://www.newser.com/story/63414/marshals-seize-ruth-madoffs-penthouse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Jul 2009 12:59:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52783/protesters-rip-manhattan-foreclosure-auction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew Yorkers protested an auction yesterday of hundreds of foreclosed homes, claiming the forced evictions plaguing the nation in this economic downturn are illegal, and demanding a moratorium. "Banks get bailout out, people get thrown out," read signs held aloft by demonstrators." Their rage was not directed at potential homebuyers,...http://www.newser.com/story/52783/protesters-rip-manhattan-foreclosure-auction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Mar 2009 2:42:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49414/freddie-mac-to-let-people-stay-in-foreclosed-houses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFreddie Mac has forged a first-of-its-kind plan to allow homeowners and tenants to remain in foreclosed homes, USA Today reports. Residents will be charged a market rental rate on leases renewable monthly after their homes have been acquired by the lender. Freddie Mac expects the program to save thousands of...http://www.newser.com/story/49414/freddie-mac-to-let-people-stay-in-foreclosed-houses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Jan 2009 2:44:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44405/soldiers-drag-jewish-settlers-from-disputed-hebron-building.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDozens of masked Jewish settlers vandalized a Palestinian house in Hebron today, just after Israeli soldiers dragged 250 Jewish settlers out of another disputed building, Haaretz reports. The move against the settlers was the first forced eviction in the West Bank in two years. Twenty-five people were injured in the...http://www.newser.com/story/44405/soldiers-drag-jewish-settlers-from-disputed-hebron-building.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 04 Dec 2008 10:54:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39507/chicago-sheriff-halts-evictions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Chicago lawman is going to stop enforcing foreclosure evictions because they’re unfair to renters, the Chicago Tribune reports. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has a huge and growing eviction list but is refusing to carry out any more mortgage-foreclosure evictions until lenders first figure out who’s actually living at...http://www.newser.com/story/39507/chicago-sheriff-halts-evictions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Oct 2008 8:21:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38076/as-foreclosures-rise-fraud-cases-balloon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRunning parallel with spiking foreclosure rates, so-called “foreclosure rescue scams” have reached epic proportions, and many state and local agencies aren't equipped to fight back, MSNBC reports. Companies that promise to help floundering property owners keep their homes and avoid the stigma of foreclosure are instead milking them for tens...http://www.newser.com/story/38076/as-foreclosures-rise-fraud-cases-balloon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Sep 2008 13:03:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30377/salty-senate-candidates-heating-up-alaska.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA sweltering Senate contest looks likely to warm up Alaska come November, Katherine Rizzo writes in the Wall Street Journal , as “cantankerous bully” and 40-year incumbent Ted Stevens faces the mayor of Anchorage in what’s already a mudfest. Democrat Mark Begich has reminded voters of Stevens’ convict friends and of...http://www.newser.com/story/30377/salty-senate-candidates-heating-up-alaska.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Jun 2008 16:18:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27876/squatters-scammers-move-in-on-foreclosed-homes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAdd a new twist to the housing crisis: Squatters are increasingly using homes that have been abandoned for months, and con artists are scamming banks in “cash for keys” deals or luring people into “leasing” homes that actually are foreclosures sitting empty, Reuters reports. Authorities can have a hard time...http://www.newser.com/story/27876/squatters-scammers-move-in-on-foreclosed-homes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 May 2008 15:30:09 CDT